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Wise Jane Austen Quotes

May you find great value in these quotes by Jane Austen.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm
for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen

Related topics: Friendship Relationship

Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)


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Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

 

Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
- Dale Carnegie

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran

Work Hard. Do your best. Keep your word.
Never get too big for your britches.
Trust in God. Have no fear;
and Never forget a friend.
- Harry S. Truman

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
- George Bernard Shaw

Best Friends: we're a parade - even by ourselves!
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

We can never replace a friend.
When a man is fortunate enough to have several,
he finds they are all different.
No one has a double in friendship.
- Johann Schiller

Above all else, my inspiration is friendship.
- Bono

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

A friendship that can end never really began.
- Publilius Syrus

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility,
never an opportunity.
- Khalil Gibran

Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates

Let there be no purpose in friendship
save the deepening of the spirit.
- Khalil Gibran

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him,
for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low,
could still be saved; the bitterest enemy
and also he who was your friend could again be your friend;
love that has grown cold can kindle
- Soren Kierkegaard

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
- Aristotle

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense,
and have her nonsense respected.
- Charles Lamb

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship,
we must love our friend for their sakes
rather than for our own.
- Charlotte Bronte

Friendship is not possible between two women
one of whom is very well dressed.
- Laurie Colwin

Friendship is the only thing in the world
concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
- Cicero

However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
It is an intelligence above language.
- Henry David Thoreau

What I cannot love, I overlook.
Is that real friendship?
- Anais Nin

Friendship is Love without his wings.
- Lord Byron

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.
- Rabindranath Tagore

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship
of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
- Robert Southey

A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century;
a passion is old at the end of three months.
- Madame Swetchine

Friendship often leads to love,
but lust seldom leads to friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The easiest kind of friendship for me
is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one.
- Joan Baez

The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous

One measure of friendship consists
not in the number of things friends can discuss,
but in the number of things they need no longer mention.
- Clifton Fadiman

It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley

Friendship that flows from the heart
cannot be frozen by adversity,
as the water that flows from the spring
cannot congeal in winter.
- James Fenimore Cooper

A true friendship always feels safe and comfortable.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Men kick friendship around like a football,
but it doesn't seem to crack.
Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul,
is too good to be believed.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington

There are not many things in life
so beautiful as true friendship,
and not many things more uncommon.
- Anonymous

If a friendship isn't comfortable, it's not a friendship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation

I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship,
and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde

There comes that mysterious meeting in life
when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be,
igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
- Rusty Berkus

In true friendship, one can express
anything and everything without feeling ashamed
or afraid of being rejected.
- Aparna Chatterjee

Our relationships - love and friendship -
are at the core of the meaning of our lives.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is the first law of friendship
that it has to be cultivated.
The second is to be indulgent
when the first law is neglected.
- Voltaire

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

There's a big difference between a handout and a helping hand.
One's charity, the other's friendship.
- Little Joe' Cartwright in Bonanza - Rain from Heaven

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons
to promote the good and happiness of one another.
- Eustace Budgell

Friendship is all about Mutuality,
neither Individuality nor Singularity.
- Aparna Chatterjee

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

Friendship based solely upon gratitude
is like a photograph; with time it fades.
- Carmen Sylva

Friendship is a thing most necessary to life,
since without friends no one would choose to live,
though possessed of all other advantages.
- Aristotle

No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny
without leaving some mark on it forever.
- Francois Muriac

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles

Wishing to be friends is quick work,
but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
- Aristotle

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.
- Elbert Hubbard

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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