Richard Russo Quotes

Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.

I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love.

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

The vital air of friendship is composed of confidence. Friendship perishes in proportion as this air diminishes.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Friendship is essentially a partnership.

I don't have a bunch of mates. I don't have a man cave. My wife and I, we are each other's best friend.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

Jonathan Bennett and I are very close friends.

A true friend is a sort of second self.

I was too young that time to value her, But now I know her. If she be a traitor, Why, so am I. We still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together, And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans, Still we went coupled and inseparable.

If you are going to be with someone all the time, they need to be your best friend.

What is a friend? I will tell you . . . . it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone

A friend is a second self.

Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.

In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both.

Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.

Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.

Why does this mean so much to you, Jon?" The Prince turned. "Because he's my friend. Because I always know where he stands, and where I stand with him. Because I think he'd die for me and--and I think I'd die for him. Is that enough?

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help

My friendship with Martin [Schulz], by contrast, is completely different in that it goes far beyond politics.

A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.