Lost Friendship Quotes - Page 4

• You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

  Clive Owen

  Thinking, People, Way

  "Interview:Clive Owen & Jude Law" by Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. December 10, 2004.

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• There have been some friendships lost over this. That's the most difficult for me. I find it very uncomfortable to know that I was at one time close friends with someone, and because of jealousies and misunderstandings and so on, these friendships have dissolved.

  Donald Johanson

  Close Friends, Difficult, Uncomfortable

  "The Quest for Human Origins". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

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• Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Reality, Men, Heroic

  Thomas Carlyle (1897). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete).”

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• When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Loss, Men, Belief

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.

  Jane Austen

  Beautiful, Sex, Loss

  Jane Austen (1813). “Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. : In Three Volumes”, p.100

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• Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

  Judy Holliday

  Friendship, Betrayed, Lovers

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• Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves. Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others.

  Janette Oke

  Blessing, Blessing To Others, Listening

  Janette Oke (1989). “The Father of Love”, Minneapolis, Minn. : Bethany House Publishers

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• Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Friendship, Real Friends, Losing Friends

  Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

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• It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.

  Tom Clancy

  Loss, Vietnam, Lessons

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• The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

  Penelope Lively

  Loss, Thinking, Gains

  "'I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2001.

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• The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

  Publilius Syrus

  Failure, Loss

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 38, 1856.

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• Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Pain, Lying, Loss

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• Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

  Socrates

  Life, Friendship, Giving

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.

  Eamon de Valera

  Winning, People, Helping

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• I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

  Warren Christopher

  Awful, Close Friends, Cases

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• Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

  Mortimer Adler

  Friendship, Leisure Activities, Lost Friend

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• What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Honor, Rogues, Littles

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• For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.

  Kim Campbell

  Loss, People, Drug

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

  Edward Young

  Friendship, Strong, Wine

  Edward Young (1856). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality”, p.135

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• But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realised, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Marriage, Funny Love, Police

  "Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records".

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• And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the general election in constituencies with a substantial Muslim population knows that.

  Clare Short

  Anger, Loss, Suffering

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• Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Humility, Loss, Pride

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• The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.273

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• Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

  Claudine Guerin de Tencin

  Friendship, Advice, May

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• Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Flower, Love Is, Tree

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