Friendship

Shaw has not an enemy in the world; and none of his friends like him.

I dreamed in a dream I saw a city invincible to the attacks of the whole of the rest of the earth,

Ambo florentes aetatibus, Arcades ambo,

I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

It is the secret sympathy,

If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: ‘Because it was he; because it was me.’

I have had playmates, I have had companions,

One man in a thousand, Solomon says,

Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

To my friends pictured within.

Tous pour un, un pour tous.

I would not enter on my list of friends

Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus. It brought me

I was angry with my friend;

There’s nothing worth the wear of winning,

It redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves.

A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

When he was asked ‘What is a friend?’ he said ‘One soul inhabiting two bodies.’

You got a lot of nerve To say you are my friend When I was down You just stood there grinning.