Romantic Quotes - Love Quotes
Friends
The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed To pardon or to bear it.
- By William Cowper , on Friends
Let us be friends, Cinna, it is I who invite you to be so.
- By Pierre Corneille , on Friends
Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.
- By Charles Caleb Colton , on Friends
There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe. - edited by John Payne Collier,
- By Cicero , on Friends
You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.
- By Cicero , on Friends
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
- By Cicero , on Friends
Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend, But not one foe whom I would wish a friend.
- By Charles Churchill , on Friends
Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends, He hurts me most who lavishly commends.
- By Charles Churchill , on Friends
Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe; Bold I can meet--perhaps may turn his blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh! save me from the candid friend.
- By George Canning , on Friends
'Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives, And in their deaths had not divided been.
- By Thomas Campbell , on Friends
