William Hazlitt Quotes

A true friend is a sort of second self.

Really being friends is the most important part, I think, of any relationship.

Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

Actually, I think friendship and love are exactly the same thing.

A friend is the hope of the heart.

I think of friendship in terms of love.

True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.

The best relationships develop out of friendships.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

I believe that we were meant to live as social creatures, to reach out and bless each other's lives.

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

In the early days, I was everything to David. I was his creative partner, his lover, his soul mate.

The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self: the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.

Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge.

Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.

Friendship is one of the greatest gifts a human being can receive. It is a bond beyond common goals, common interests, or common histories. It is a bond stronger than sexual union can create, deeper than a shared fate can solidify, and even more intimate than the bonds of marriage or community. Friendship is being with the other in joy and sorrow, even when we cannot increase the joy or decrease the sorrow. It is a unity of souls that gives nobility and sincerity to love. Friendship makes all of life shine brightly.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

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

When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart; For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed. When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

A friend is a second self.

I would consider him definitely one of my very best friends and I know he feels the same about me. We have a lot of love and respect.

Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

What a thing friendship is - World without end.

Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by law. But friendships are freely entered into, freely given, and freely exercised.