Oscar Wilde
Writer
"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."
Real Friends quotes
Real Friends
104 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
George Herbert
Poet
"The best mirror is an old friend."
Robert Louis Stevenson
Author, Poet
"A friend is a gift you give yourself."
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer, Pianist
"Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."
Prince
Musician, Singer, Songwriter
"A real friend or mentor isn't on your payroll."
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"She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."
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"For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness."
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"Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."
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"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."
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"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."
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"Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends."
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"One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life."
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"Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit."
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"I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends"
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"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."
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"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?"
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"There is no hope of joy except in human relations."
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"You Too? I thought I was the only one."
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"A joy shared is a joy doubled."
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"Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend."
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"There is flattery in friendship."
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"The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
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"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."
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"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."
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