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Quotes about friendship

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A plague o’ both your houses.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act III, Scene I, spoken by MercutioIn context
- Enemies
Et tu, Brute?⁠—Then fall, Caesar!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Julius Caesar (1599), Act III, Scene I, spoken by CaesarIn context
- Enemies
Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch
Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act II, Scene I, spoken by ClaudioIn context
- Beauty
- Love
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Henry V (1599), Act IV, Scene III, spoken by King HenryIn context
- Courage
- War & Peace
Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Pygmalion (1912), Act V, spoken by HigginsIn context
- Freedom
I know you now, old enemies of mine!
Falsehood!
Have at you! Ha! and Compromise!
Prejudice, Treachery!…
Surrender, I?
Parley? No, never! You too, Folly,⁠—you?
I know that you will lay me low at last;
Let be! Yet I fall fighting, fighting still!
Edmond Rostand1868–1918Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), Act V: Cyrano’s Gazette, Scene VI, spoken by CyranoIn context
- Courage
- Enemies
Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot
Niccolò Machiavelli1469–1527The Prince (1532), Chapter IIIIn context
- Enemies
- Power
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854), SolitudeIn context
- Thinking
The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849The Cask of Amontillado (1846)In context
- Anger
- Enemies
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to min’?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days o’ lang syne?
Robert Burns1759–1796Auld Lang Syne (1788)In context
- Holidays
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.
Robert Burns1759–1796Auld Lang Syne (1788)In context
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882The Arrow and the Song (1845)In context
- Music
For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen whilst one stands.
Christina Rossetti1830–1894Goblin Market (1862)In context
- Family
The soul selects her own society,
Then shuts the door;
On her divine majority
Obtrude no more.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886The Soul selects her own Society (1890)In context
- Character
Good fences make good neighbours.
Robert Frost1874–1963Mending Wall (1914)In context
- Wisdom