Quotes by British Authors - Page 64

Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years. ... They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.
Horace Walpole
It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.
Mary Webb
Every organism requires an environment of friends partly to shield it from violent changes and partly to supply it with its wants.
Alfred North Whitehead
An old friend never can be found and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
Samuel Johnson
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
Dorothy L. Sayers
However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.
Vera Brittain
I have lost friends some by death ... others by sheer inability to cross the street.
Virginia Woolf
Oh the comfort the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words but pouring them all out just as they are chaff and grain together certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
Walter Savage Landor
There's no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.
Anne Stevenson
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
Doris Lessing
Give me the avowed the erect and manly foe Bold I can meet perhaps may turn the blow But of all plagues good Heaven thy wrath can send Save oh save me from the candid friend!
George Canning
A cheerful friend is like a sunny day which sheds its brightness on all around.
John Lubbock
Nobody who is afraid of laughing and heartily too at his friend can be said to have a true and thorough love for him.
Julius Charles Hare
Friendship cannot live with ceremony nor without civility.
Lord Halifax
Truth is a rough honest helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.
Ouida
A cruel story runs on wheels and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
Ouida
Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds even if it is the salt of the earth.
Rebecca West
A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
Samuel Butler
Don't tell your friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Treat your fiends as you do your picture and place them in their best light.
Jennie Jerome Churchill
It is well when judging a friend to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
Arnold Bennett
The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.
David Storey
It should be part of our private ritual to devote a quarter of an hour every day to the enumeration of the good qualities of our friends. When we are not active we fall back idly upon defects even of those whom we most love.
Mark Rutherford
To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him ... two.
Norman Douglas
The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.
Elizabeth Foley
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection and not a fountain to show them that we love them not when we feel like it but when they do.
Nan Fairbrother
No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase in some respect his fondness of himself.
Samuel Johnson
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement much disputation and yet more personal liking.
George Eliot
Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.
George Eliot
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
Evelyn Waugh
It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife.
Samuel Johnson
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not endured with patient resignation.
Bertrand Russell
To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.
John Churton Collins
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things but above all the power of getting out of one's self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
Thomas Hughes
There is a definite process by which one made people into friends and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
Rebecca West
Who ran to help me when I fell And would some pretty story tell Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.
Jane Taylor
He [Winston Churchill] has a future and I have a past so we should be all right.
Jennie Jerome Churchill
Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends.
Virginia Woolf
Best friend my well-spring in the wilderness!
George Eliot
Friends Make Life Bearable But I have certainty enough For I am sure of you.
Amelia Barr
If ever two were one then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife then thee.
Anne Bradstreet
My life seems to have become suddenly hollow and I do not know what is hanging over me. I cannot even put the shadow that has fallen on me into words. At least into written words. I would give a great deal for a friend's voice.
John Addington Symonds
The bird a nest the spider a web man friendship.
William Blake
There is nothing meritorious but virtue and friendship.
Alexander Pope
Friendship is the allay of our sorrows the ease of our passions the discharge of our oppression the sanctuary of our calamities the counselor of our doubts the clarity of our minds the emission of our thoughts the exercise and improvement of what we dedicate.
Jeremy Taylor
It was such a joy to see thee. I wish I could tell how much thee is to my life. I always turn to thee as a sort of rest.
Lady Henry Somerset
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love like being enlivened with champagne.
Samuel Johnson
There's nothing worth the wear of winning but laughter and the love of friends.
Hilaire Belloc
Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?
D.H. Lawrence
A cheer then for the noblest breast That fears not danger's post And like the lifeboat proves a friend When friends are wanted most.
Eliza Cook
I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation.
Rupert Brooke
Love is like the wild-rose briar Friendship is like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms But which will bloom most constantly?
Emily Brontë
The great difference between voyages rests not in ships but in the people you meet on them.
Amelia Barr
Friendship is the bread of the heart.
Mary Russell Mitford
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
Charles Caleb Colton
A cheer then for the noble breast that fears not danger's post And like the lifeboat proves a friend When friends are wanted most.
Eliza Cook
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot
Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb Colton