in Quotes & Aphorisms (Friendship)
Kipps was unprepared for the unpleasant truth; that the path of social advancement is and must be strewn with broken friendships.
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Kipps was unprepared for the unpleasant truth; that the path of social advancement is and must be strewn with broken friendships.
I've never dropped anyone I believed in.
People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked?
A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals the secret of some hidden treasure.
Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.
I felt that I admired you, but I told myself it was only friendship; and till I began to make comparisons between yourself and Lucy, I did not know how far I was got.
What is true is that I have at times earned my own crust of bread, and at other times a friend has given it to me out of the goodness of his heart. I have lived whatever way I could, for better or for worse, taking things just as they came. It is true that I have forfeited the trust of various people, it is true that my financial affairs are in a sorry state, it is true that the future looks rather bleak, it is true that I might have done better, it is true that I have wasted time when it comes to earning a living, it is true that my studies are in a fairly lamentable and appalling state, and that my needs are greater, infinitely greater than my resources. But does that mean going downhill and doing nothing?
If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.
Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.