friendship

"I feel friendship towards philosophers, but towards sophists, teachers of literature, or any other such kind of godforsaken people, I neither feel friendship now, nor may I ever do so in the future."

"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty."

"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."

"I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page."

"Secrecy is the chastity of friendship."

"People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within."

"Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best."

"Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference."

"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes."

"We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other."

"If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue."

"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"

"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not."

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."

"Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports."

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."

"I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends."

"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

"I mix talents and friendship, which is not very professional, but it's my way of thinking. So I love Azzedine Alaia, because I've known him for 30 years, and he's making my dresses most of the time."