Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.
—Jane Austen, 1811Quotes
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
—Evelyn Waugh, 1963In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880Friendship’s a noble name, ’tis love refined.
—Susanna Centlivre, 1703Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
—Gore Vidal, 1973I have often said that if I wish to name-drop, I have only to list my ex-friends.
—Norman Podhoretz, 1999There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
—Nancy Spain, 1956Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.
—Honoré de Balzac, 1847There is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.
—Terence, 161 BCI count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1595Friends are fictions founded on some single momentary experience.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1864He who has nothing has no friends.
—Greek proverb