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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter IIn context
- Laughter
Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together
Charles Dickens1812–1870Great Expectations (1861), Chapter XXVIIIn context
- Life & Death
To the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter CXXXVIn context
- Anger
- Enemies
It contributes greatly towards a man’s moral and intellectual health to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The Scarlet Letter (1850), The Custom-HouseIn context
- Character
Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter XIn context
- Enemies
They’re a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. “You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter VIIIIn context
“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead,” he suggested. “After that my own rule is to let everything alone.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald1896–1940The Great Gatsby (1925), Chapter IXIn context
- Life & Death
Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
James Joyce1882–1941Dubliners (1914), A Painful CaseIn context
- Love
- Sex
We be of one blood, ye and I
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936The Jungle Book (1894), Kaa’s HuntingIn context
- Animals
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
L. M. Montgomery1874–1942Anne of Green Gables (1908), Chapter XIXIn context
Your friend is your needs answered.
He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
And he is your board and your fireside.
For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931The Prophet (1923), On FriendshipIn context
Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has other matters in his mind which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Notes from Underground (1864), Part I: Underground, Chapter XIIn context
- Truth & Lies
A word of command has made these silent figures our enemies; a word of command might transform them into our friends.
Erich Maria Remarque1898–1970All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Chapter VIIIIn context
- Enemies
- War & Peace
Why do they never tell us that you are just poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death, and the same dying and the same agony⁠—. Forgive me, comrade; how could you be my enemy?
Erich Maria Remarque1898–1970All Quiet on the Western Front (1929), Chapter IXIn context
- Enemies
- War & Peace
We have scorch’d the snake, not kill’d it.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act III, Scene II, spoken by MacbethIn context
- Enemies