William Hazlitt Quotes

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

You don't fully appreciate your band until you're away from them.

We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously.

Distance sometimes endears friendship, and absence sweeteneth it.

It is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed we beginto keep them company. How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual Friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.

Relations are errors that Nature makes. / Your spouse you can put on the shelf. / But your friends, dear friends, are the quaint mistakes / You always commit yourself.

Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.

When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.

The game isn't the same when we're apart.

People always like people, you know?

Life is about connections, and some people have better chemistry with others. That don't make you bad people.

I feel very appreciative of my mum, my girl, my family, my friends.

I think we take our friends for granted a lot in high school. We're so busy worrying about our own problems that we ignore the fact that we have these people who are supporting us and taking care of us like all the time.

But I think 'Love, Actually' has a very realistic view of human nature in line with the latest scientific evidence. The opening scene, where Hugh Grant's character talks about the arrivals gate at Heathrow, is about friendship and connection, it's about who we really are as a species.

Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men. Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person's qualities but on trust. It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.

If I didn't have most of my friends, I wouldn't have most of my problems.

It's funny, you make friends and you lose friends when you're making a movie.

If one stays too long with friends They will soon tire of him; Living in such closeness leads to dislike and hate. It is but human to expect and demand too much When one dwells too long in companionship.

Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.

When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.

Most people write off their longing for friends and family as so many losses in their lives, when they should count the fact that their heart is able to long so hard and to love so much as among their greatest blessings.

Real success is doing things right every day by not forgetting to express love to your friends.

The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.