Dorothy Allison Quotes

Friends never cheat on each other, or take advantage, or lie. Friends do not spy on one another, yet they have no secrets. Friends glory in each other's successes and are downcast by the failures. Friends minister to each other, nurse each other. Friends give to each other, worry about each other, stand always ready to help. Perfect friendship is rarely achieved, but at its height it is an ecstasy.

An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.

A good friend will help you plant your tulips. A great friend will help you plant a gun on the unarmed intruder you just shot.

You find out who your true friends are not when you are on top of the world, but when the world is on top of you.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

You have to stay true to your true friends and your family.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.

Some things you didn't give away, no matter how much you owed.

Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.

Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

A true friend never asks you to feed their imaginary fish. Or fertilize their imaginary crops.

I wished my wife to be not so much as suspected. Common traditional saying: Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.

Again and again, I learn how much friendship enriches my life, bringing warmth, assurance, humour, inspiration, a sense of security. It depends on honesty, trust, loyalty. It's about giving. It's for sharing the good times, but also the tough times, hurt, grief, sadness.

Not me. Give me honesty anytime.

True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends

Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.

I don't kick a man when he's down, unless I'm the one who put him down in the first place. I don't put him down unless he deserves it. And I don't break my word if I give it. So I'll give you my word.

In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence.