Norman Mailer Quotes

They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody." - "That so bad?" - "Yes. It means you can´t trust them.

If you're going to think mean things about me or not be a true friend, then we don't need to be friends.

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

I'm pretty loyal to my guitars, you know, but then they're pretty loyal to me, too.

We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

I'm loyal to CBS. They have been loyal to me.

I go to bat with people that are loyal to me.

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.

Just because you’re on their side doesn’t mean they’re on your side.

People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.

She'd also called me brave...unless she was talking to the catfish.

It can be much harder to be on the receiving end of a transaction than to be the one who gets to give. In fact, being given to can mean being taken from. There is a very strong connection between pride and giving, and those who do the giving get to feel that they are worthy, while those who are given to often feel that they are not.

I don't mind assholes. It's the dork I don't trust. The dork is the one who's trying to be whatever he thinks you want him to be. I trust the asshole cause you know where he's gonna stand.

friendship was always contingent.

There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don't wish to do.

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

Course Dumbledore trusts you,” growled Moody. “He’s a trusting man, isn’t he? Believes in second chances. But me — I say there are spots that don’t come off, Snape. Spots that never come off, d’you know what I mean?

Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.

In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.

As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You'd think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they're together.

Apologies mean nothing if you don't mean it.

You don't learn how to say 'hey, I have a problem,' but you also don't learn how to hear it. There's a total breakdown of how females talk to one another. It's very disconcerting for leadership because it means you don't talk to each other; you talk about each other.

Everybody by your side ain't on your side

I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way.