Francis Quarles Quotes

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

I have lifelong friends. My oldest friend, Herbie, has been a friend since I was 9. I've had bonds for over 50 years with people.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

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

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

If you stop loving someone, did you ever love them? If you say you're committed and later you're not committed, well, was the first thing commitment? You see what I mean? This kind of thing has always interested me.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

I have got some fantastic friendships that I have had for a long, long time.

I had friendships with two people in my life who, when I attempted to do my habitual behavior of building a case to break up with them, wouldn't allow me to do it. They both said to me, 'I'm not going anywhere.' And that moved me so deeply.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

I have these wonderful friends, and they're supportive and loving, and you can really be yourself around them in a way some people even can't with their partners.

I've got friends and my family and people who've been around for years and years and years. And those people are never in doubt: They'd be my friend whether I was a homeless dude, or I had a hit single.

You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.

Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended

If it is conditional, it is not love

Girls may love movies about fairytale princes, but their most captivating romance is with their friends.

I actually, truly do love my family. It's not a public relations exercise.

There's no real animosity, anymore... Me and Paul had a good team and we still are a good team. When Lennon died, Paul said he was never going to let that happen again, he was never going to fall out with anyone again.