James Payn Quotes

We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

When I was growing up, I thought everything was a life of friendship, respect, and sharing. But I discovered that unfortunately, you have people who aren't behaving in the same way but have hatred.

A friend is someone who will allow me to be a really bad friend and not hold it against me.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!

Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once.

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

All men are chums who will never leave each other in the lurch. A chum doesn't forgive, he just forgets - women forgive everything but never forget. Being forgiven is very unpleasant.

As I'm getting older, I'm really learning unconditional love and loyalty are extremely important.

Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.

Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities - good and bad.

Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.

Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

I was the angriest daughter on earth, and also, one of the most devoted.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Billy Graham talks about how he doesn't judge people. I don't either. Some people I am just pissed at.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.