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without which the world is but a wilderness; and even in this sense also of solitude, whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections, is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Francis Bacon", "slug": "francis-bacon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon" }, "book": { "title": "The Essays", "slug": "the-essays", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon/the-essays" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "loneliness", "slug": "loneliness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness" }, { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Essays_(Francis_Bacon)#Of_Friendship", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T07:02:21" }, { "id": "788875b9-672e-40ef-aabf-3aa707d3714a", "slug": "nuptial-love-maketh", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon/the-essays/nuptial-love-maketh", "text": "Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wonton love corrupteth and embaseth it.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Francis Bacon", "slug": "francis-bacon", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon" }, "book": { "title": "The Essays", "slug": "the-essays", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/francis-bacon/the-essays" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Essays_(Francis_Bacon)#Of_Love", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T07:02:19" }, { "id": "db5fc916-f82f-4e27-98ad-cb3cd2f3b394", "slug": "friendship-takes-time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/betty-white/if-you-ask-me/friendship-takes-time", "text": "Friendship takes time and energy if it’s going to work. 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It was the change in my character, dating from this period, rather than my literary celebrity, that drew their jealousy upon me; they would perhaps have forgiven me for distinguishing myself in the art of writing; but they could not forgive me for setting an example, in my change of life, which seemed likely to cause them inconvenience.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau", "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau" }, "book": { "title": "Confessions", "slug": "confessions", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/confessions" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" }, { "name": "jealousy", "slug": "jealousy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/jealousy" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Confessions_(Rousseau)#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T07:02:04" }, { "id": "ef1ae463-62a4-4054-90b8-ddbc1b6766ae", "slug": "i-believe-that", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/confessions/i-believe-that", "text": "I believe that my friends would have forgiven me for writing books – even excellent books – because such a reputation was attainable by themselves; but they were unable to forgive me for having composed an opera, or for its brilliant success, because not one of them was capable of following the same career, or aspiring to the same honour.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau", "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau" }, "book": { "title": "Confessions", "slug": "confessions", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/confessions" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" }, { "name": "jealousy", "slug": "jealousy", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/jealousy" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Confessions_(Rousseau)#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-26T07:02:03" }, { "id": "ae3a82e6-247e-4bc7-9cff-1d5d969ff2b3", "slug": "i-had-a-tolerably", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/confessions/i-had-a-tolerably", "text": "I had a tolerably large number of acquaintances, but only two chosen friends, Diderot and Grimm. 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Their continued existence.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Christopher Hitchens", "slug": "christopher-hitchens", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens" }, "book": { "title": "Hitch 22", "slug": "hitch-22", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/christopher-hitchens/hitch-22" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 334, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hitch-22#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T23:05:56" }, { "id": "a1f1734b-29c2-4531-9291-1a85180ffcc7", "slug": "if-there-are", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/clinton-romesha/red-platoon/if-there-are", "text": "If there are soldiers who miss the fury of combat, who find themselves tortured by the desire to return to its flames, I cannot number myself in their company. 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Many who venture into dangerous places have found this comradeship among members of their own race; a few find it more easily among people from other lands, the very differences which separate them binding them ever more closely. I found it among the Bedu. 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Friends you can hurt, for they expect everything.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "David Gemmell", "slug": "david-gemmell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell" }, "book": { "title": "The King Beyond the Gate", "slug": "the-king-beyond-the-gate", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/the-king-beyond-the-gate" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Gemmell#The_King_Beyond_the_Gate", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:54" }, { "id": "72831f61-a91e-4d06-b1d8-4895970c3ea5", "slug": "i-am-a-stranger", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/the-king-beyond-the-gate/i-am-a-stranger", "text": "I am a stranger. 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One moment they are surrounded by smiling faces, the next they are utterly friendless.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "David Gemmell", "slug": "david-gemmell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell" }, "book": { "title": "Stormrider", "slug": "stormrider", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/stormrider" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Gemmell#Stormrider", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:52" }, { "id": "9022c207-5ead-4888-911f-26a7244cb8bf", "slug": "its-all-right", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-broken-kingdoms/its-all-right", "text": "It’s all right to need help. All of us have things we can’t do alone.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "N. K. 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It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Lucy Maud Montgomery", "slug": "lucy-maud-montgomery", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lucy-maud-montgomery" }, "book": { "title": "Anne of Green Gables", "slug": "anne-of-green-gables", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/lucy-maud-montgomery/anne-of-green-gables" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anne_of_Green_Gables#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:18" }, { "id": "43b476cb-ff1d-415c-b347-c88232bc1608", "slug": "i-dont-have", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/donna-tartt/the-secret-history/i-dont-have", "text": "\"I don't have any friends here for the winter,\" I said, and I didn't. \"You shouldn't push your friends away like that. The best friends you'll ever have are the ones you're making right now. I know you don't believe me, but they start to fall away when you get to be my age.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Donna Tartt", "slug": "donna-tartt", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/donna-tartt" }, "book": { "title": "The Secret History", "slug": "the-secret-history", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/donna-tartt/the-secret-history" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 120, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Secret_History#Quotations", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:17" }, { "id": "8703dacf-5da9-4785-b59f-4a9c6e4f6fb3", "slug": "as-my-father", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/patrick-rothfuss/the-name-of-the-wind/as-my-father", "text": "As my father used to say: “There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.”", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Patrick Rothfuss", "slug": "patrick-rothfuss", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/patrick-rothfuss" }, "book": { "title": "The Name of the Wind", "slug": "the-name-of-the-wind", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/patrick-rothfuss/the-name-of-the-wind" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 354, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "money", "slug": "money", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money" }, { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Patrick_Rothfuss#The_Name_of_the_Wind_(2007)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:57:09" }, { "id": "8523a2eb-99a4-4b34-89f7-58e38a867bcb", "slug": "sometimes-the-cost", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/odyssey/sometimes-the-cost", "text": "Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jack Mcdevitt", "slug": "jack-mcdevitt", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt" }, "book": { "title": "Odyssey", "slug": "odyssey", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/odyssey" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 69, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" }, { "name": "integrity", "slug": "integrity", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/integrity" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_McDevitt#Odyssey_(2006)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:58" }, { "id": "d05e665e-87de-40fa-9e33-0a9877f6e28d", "slug": "what-nobler-relationship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/manly-p-hall/the-lost-keys-of-freemasonry/what-nobler-relationship", "text": "What nobler relationship than that of friend? 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In all the years I've known him, there's always been exactly one place Simon wanted to be, and he's always fought like hell to make sure he got there and stayed there.\" \"Where's that?\" \"Wherever you were.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Cassandra Clare", "slug": "cassandra-clare", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare" }, "book": { "title": "City of Ashes", "slug": "city-of-ashes", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/cassandra-clare/city-of-ashes" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cassandra_Clare#City_of_Ashes_(2008)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:56:01" }, { "id": "951597ad-e8c0-48fd-8a56-0e10b23c1785", "slug": "two-a-m-he-swallowed", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-dessen/what-happened-to-goodbye/two-a-m-he-swallowed", "text": "Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, \"You know. 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Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go! 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Never on me had rested woman's love. My mother even could not find me fair: I had no sister; and, when grown a man, I feared the mistress who would mock at me. But I have had your friendship — grace to you A woman's charm has passed across my path.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Edmond Rostand", "slug": "edmond-rostand", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmond-rostand" }, "book": { "title": "Cyrano de Bergerac", "slug": "cyrano-de-bergerac", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/edmond-rostand/cyrano-de-bergerac" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "women", "slug": "women", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women" }, { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" }, { "name": "appearance", "slug": "appearance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/appearance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edmond_Rostand#Cyrano_de_Bergerac_(1897)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:12" }, { "id": "5ad4c49b-dd6a-4d0b-8f98-9e7b0399ffe8", "slug": "those-who-seek", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-brown/the-da-vinci-code/those-who-seek", "text": "Those who seek the truth are more than friends. They are brothers.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Dan Brown", "slug": "dan-brown", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-brown" }, "book": { "title": "The Da Vinci Code", "slug": "the-da-vinci-code", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dan-brown/the-da-vinci-code" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "truth", "slug": "truth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth" }, { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Da_Vinci_Code#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:51:06" }, { "id": "a3e7f642-9228-4f52-918d-9f50cc6b0eef", "slug": "one-of-lifes", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-brin/earth/one-of-lifes", "text": "One of life’s joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "David Brin", "slug": "david-brin", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-brin" }, "book": { "title": "Earth", "slug": "earth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-brin/earth" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 311, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/David_Brin#Earth_(1990)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:44" }, { "id": "a6548c32-51de-4cb8-b93b-1f3a9234df2e", "slug": "of-two-friends", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mikhail-lermontov/a-hero-of-our-time/of-two-friends", "text": "Of two friends, one is always the slave of the other, although frequently neither acknowledges the fact to himself.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Mikhail Lérmontov", "slug": "mikhail-lermontov", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mikhail-lermontov" }, "book": { "title": "A Hero of Our Time", "slug": "a-hero-of-our-time", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mikhail-lermontov/a-hero-of-our-time" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mikhail_Lermontov#A_Hero_of_Our_Time_(1840%3B_rev._1841)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:50:25" }, { "id": "59deff4a-562f-478f-a64f-22e2b31581de", "slug": "my-friendships-were", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/shadow-puppets/my-friendships-were", "text": "My friendships were not... transcendent. 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I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.\" - Isabella Thorpe, en:s:Northanger Abbey/Chapter 6", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jane Austen", "slug": "jane-austen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen" }, "book": { "title": "Northanger Abbey", "slug": "northanger-abbey", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/northanger-abbey" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Northanger_Abbey#Chapter_6", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:43" }, { "id": "2fba0f3d-1604-4408-8b9a-e22ba8249b6d", "slug": "strangers-are-just", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mitch-albom/the-five-people-you-meet-in-heaven/strangers-are-just", "text": "\"Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Mitch Albom", "slug": "mitch-albom", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mitch-albom" }, "book": { "title": "The Five People You Meet in Heaven", "slug": "the-five-people-you-meet-in-heaven", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mitch-albom/the-five-people-you-meet-in-heaven" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mitch_Albom#The_Five_People_You_Meet_in_Heaven_(2003)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:36" }, { "id": "9a4a9443-a910-4ba0-9704-2cbddc2aa23e", "slug": "dick-never-thought", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-makepeace-thackeray/the-history-of-henry-esmond/dick-never-thought", "text": "Dick never thought that his bottle companion was a butt to aim at—only a friend to shake by the hand.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "William Makepeace Thackeray", "slug": "william-makepeace-thackeray", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-makepeace-thackeray" }, "book": { "title": "The History of Henry Esmond", "slug": "the-history-of-henry-esmond", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-makepeace-thackeray/the-history-of-henry-esmond" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Makepeace_Thackeray#The_History_of_Henry_Esmond_(1852)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:28" }, { "id": "171a050d-fb9a-4553-9a0e-535c4f7da1d0", "slug": "where-you-are", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-s-beagle/the-last-unicorn/where-you-are", "text": "\"Where you are going now,\" Schmendrick answered, \"few will mean you anything but evil, and a friendly heart — however foolish — may be as welcome as water one day. Take me with you, for laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Peter S. Beagle", "slug": "peter-s-beagle", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-s-beagle" }, "book": { "title": "The Last Unicorn", "slug": "the-last-unicorn", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-s-beagle/the-last-unicorn" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Last_Unicorn#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:28" }, { "id": "2163417c-2ef0-475a-ad92-10416113d461", "slug": "you-fertility-deities", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/roger-zelazny/lord-of-light/you-fertility-deities", "text": "\"You fertility deities are worse than Marxists,\" he said. \"You think that's all that goes on between people. We were just friends for a time, but she is too hard on her friends and so loses them.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Roger Zelazny", "slug": "roger-zelazny", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/roger-zelazny" }, "book": { "title": "Lord of Light", "slug": "lord-of-light", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/roger-zelazny/lord-of-light" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 175, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lord_of_Light#FIVE", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:10" }, { "id": "c408db88-619e-4fe0-b552-ad8fc7e12b85", "slug": "trusting-no-man", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-scarlet-letter/trusting-no-man", "text": "Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "slug": "nathaniel-hawthorne", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne" }, "book": { "title": "The Scarlet Letter", "slug": "the-scarlet-letter", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-scarlet-letter" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" }, { "name": "trust", "slug": "trust", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trust" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne#The_Scarlet_Letter_(1850)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:07" }, { "id": "793b7290-a68f-4403-84f5-1d27ad6fb0aa", "slug": "it-contributes-greatly", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-scarlet-letter/it-contributes-greatly", "text": "It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Nathaniel Hawthorne", "slug": "nathaniel-hawthorne", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne" }, "book": { "title": "The Scarlet Letter", "slug": "the-scarlet-letter", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/nathaniel-hawthorne/the-scarlet-letter" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" }, { "name": "tolerance", "slug": "tolerance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tolerance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne#The_Scarlet_Letter_(1850)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:49:07" }, { "id": "f0d83429-d99d-4a25-abef-00eaf5006280", "slug": "serious-reflexion-about", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iris-murdoch/sartre/serious-reflexion-about", "text": "Serious reflexion about one's own character will often induce a curious sense of emptiness; and if one knows another person well, one may sometimes intuit a similar void in him. (This is one of the strange privileges of friendship.)", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Iris Murdoch", "slug": "iris-murdoch", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iris-murdoch" }, "book": { "title": "Sartre", "slug": "sartre", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/iris-murdoch/sartre" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 119, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" }, { "name": "emptiness", "slug": "emptiness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/emptiness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Iris_Murdoch#Sartre:_Romantic_Rationalist_(1953)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:29" }, { "id": "40420f88-f7b5-4dff-b5a7-59bb8f89d7ac", "slug": "dull-grown-ups-and", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/nova/dull-grown-ups-and", "text": "Dull grown-ups and bright children form a particularly tolerant friendship.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Samuel R. Delany", "slug": "samuel-r-delany", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany" }, "book": { "title": "Nova", "slug": "nova", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/nova" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 44, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "children", "slug": "children", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/children" }, { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_R._Delany#Nova_(1968)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:18" }, { "id": "7e9e257d-6007-46bf-9137-02ad05e082c6", "slug": "love-is-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/valerie-solanas/scum-manifesto/love-is-not", "text": "Love is not dependency or sex, but is friendship, and, therefore, love can't exist between two males, between a male and a female or between two females, one or both of whom is a mindless, insecure, pandering male; like conversation it can exist only between two secure, free-wheeling, independent, groovy female females, as friendship is based on [respect, not contempt.]", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Valerie Solanas", "slug": "valerie-solanas", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/valerie-solanas" }, "book": { "title": "SCUM Manifesto", "slug": "scum-manifesto", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/valerie-solanas/scum-manifesto" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 10, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" }, { "name": "feminism", "slug": "feminism", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/feminism" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Valerie_Solanas#SCUM_MANIFESTO_(1967)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:48:05" }, { "id": "81baaec0-028c-4d3c-9315-0074d6f47fcb", "slug": "i-have-a-suspicion", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/the-man-who-was-thursday/i-have-a-suspicion", "text": "I have a suspicion that you are all mad … but God forbid that madness should in any way interrupt friendship.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "G. Chesterton", "slug": "g-chesterton", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton" }, "book": { "title": "The Man Who Was Thursday", "slug": "the-man-who-was-thursday", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/g-chesterton/the-man-who-was-thursday" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" }, { "name": "madness", "slug": "madness", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/madness" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Was_Thursday#Ch._XII_:_The_Earth_in_Anarchy", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:54" }, { "id": "954050ac-b73a-4bda-a67b-4eb321300456", "slug": "the-heart-may", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen/the-death-of-the-heart/the-heart-may", "text": "The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Elizabeth Bowen", "slug": "elizabeth-bowen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen" }, "book": { "title": "The Death of the Heart", "slug": "the-death-of-the-heart", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen/the-death-of-the-heart" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" }, { "name": "the senses", "slug": "the-senses", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-senses" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bowen#The_Death_of_the_Heart_(1939)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:51" }, { "id": "15e552e0-2ac2-4eda-a611-b1dc8f831d09", "slug": "intimacies-between-women", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen/the-death-of-the-heart/intimacies-between-women", "text": "Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Elizabeth Bowen", "slug": "elizabeth-bowen", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen" }, "book": { "title": "The Death of the Heart", "slug": "the-death-of-the-heart", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/elizabeth-bowen/the-death-of-the-heart" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "women", "slug": "women", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women" }, { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bowen#The_Death_of_the_Heart_(1939)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:51" }, { "id": "389d2d1e-fdf1-49fb-8ccb-9456ac4c99ba", "slug": "finally-speech-and", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/oswald-spengler/the-decline-of-the-west/finally-speech-and", "text": "Finally, speech and truth exclude one another. And in fact this is just what brings up, in the age of fixed language, the typical \"judge of men,\" who is all race and knows how to take the being that is speaking. To look a man keenly in the eyes, to size up the speaker behind the stump speech or the philosophical discourse, to know behind the prayer the heart, and behind the common good-tone the more intimate levels of social importance—and that instantaneously, immediately, and with the self-evident certainty that characterizes everything cosmic—that is what is lacking to the real Taboo-man, for whom one language at any rate carries conviction. A priest who is also a diplomat cannot be genuinely a priest. An ethical philosopher of the Kant stamp is never a \"judge of men.\" The man who lies in his verbal utterances betrays himself, without observing it, in his demeanour. One who uses demeanour to dissimulate with betrays himself in his tone. It is precisely because rigid speech separates means and intent that it never carries it off with the keen appraiser. The adept reads between the lines and understands a man as soon as he sees his walk or his handwriting. The deeper and more intimate a spiritual communion, the more readily it dispenses with signs and linkages through waking-consciousness. A real comradeship makes itself understood with few words, a real faith is silent altogether. The purest symbol of an understanding that has again got beyond language is the old peasant couple sitting in the evening in front of their cottage and entertaining one another without a word's being passed, each knowing what the other is thinking and feeling. Words would only disturb the harmony. From such a state of reciprocal understanding something or other reaches back, far beyond the collective existence of the higher animal-world, deep in the primeval history of free-moving life. Here deliverance from the waking-consciousness is, at moments, very nearly achieved.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Oswald Spengler", "slug": "oswald-spengler", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/oswald-spengler" }, "book": { "title": "The Decline of the West", "slug": "the-decline-of-the-west", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/oswald-spengler/the-decline-of-the-west" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 137, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "lies", "slug": "lies", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies" }, { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" }, { "name": "language", "slug": "language", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/language" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Oswald_Spengler#The_Decline_of_the_West_(1918,_1923)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:47:42" }, { "id": "3531dcba-c30e-4c6b-bd7e-4a0f062706a0", "slug": "and-in-spite", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-mortimer/where-theres-a-will/and-in-spite", "text": "And in spite of David and Jonathan, Hamlet and Horatio, Caesar and Antony, Bush and Blair, women have a greater gift, I think, for friendship.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "John Mortimer", "slug": "john-mortimer", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-mortimer" }, "book": { "title": "Where There's a Will", "slug": "where-theres-a-will", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-mortimer/where-theres-a-will" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "women", "slug": "women", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women" }, { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Mortimer#Where_There's_a_Will:_Thoughts_on_the_Good_Life_(2003)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:44" }, { "id": "2048a00c-f88b-4509-91c4-f340fc7a192a", "slug": "the-man-in-black-smiled", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-gunslinger/the-man-in-black-smiled", "text": "The man in black smiled. \"Shall we tell the truth then, you and I? No more lies?\"\"I thought we had been.\"But the man in black persisted as if Roland hadn't spoken. \"Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as equals? There is an offer you will get rarely, Roland. Only equals speak the truth, that's my thought on't. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of regard. How tiresome!\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Stephen King", "slug": "stephen-king", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king" }, "book": { "title": "The Gunslinger", "slug": "the-gunslinger", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/stephen-king/the-gunslinger" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "truth", "slug": "truth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/truth" }, { "name": "lies", "slug": "lies", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies" }, { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Dark_Tower_(series)#Vol._I:_The_Gunslinger", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:04" }, { "id": "ce4f6dd9-a2af-4a50-bcae-facd8c890a73", "slug": "under-a-tyranny", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sinclair-lewis/it-cant-happen-here/under-a-tyranny", "text": "Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn \"reasonable\" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Sinclair Lewis", "slug": "sinclair-lewis", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sinclair-lewis" }, "book": { "title": "It Can't Happen Here", "slug": "it-cant-happen-here", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sinclair-lewis/it-cant-happen-here" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" }, { "name": "tyranny", "slug": "tyranny", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tyranny" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sinclair_Lewis#It_Can't_Happen_Here_(1935)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:02" }, { "id": "8b7567d0-059e-4c3a-a1ff-ab756226d388", "slug": "it-is-one", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sinclair-lewis/arrowsmith/it-is-one", "text": "It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends. ~ Ch. 20", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Sinclair Lewis", "slug": "sinclair-lewis", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sinclair-lewis" }, "book": { "title": "Arrowsmith", "slug": "arrowsmith", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/sinclair-lewis/arrowsmith" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sinclair_Lewis#Arrowsmith_(1925)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:46:01" }, { "id": "f45913a6-7e0f-4364-ad22-893396062b64", "slug": "let-us-learn", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fscott-fitzgerald/the-great-gatsby/let-us-learn", "text": "Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead,” he suggested. “After that my own rule is to let everything alone.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "F.Scott Fitzgerald", "slug": "fscott-fitzgerald", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fscott-fitzgerald" }, "book": { "title": "The Great Gatsby", "slug": "the-great-gatsby", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/fscott-fitzgerald/the-great-gatsby" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 172, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "death", "slug": "death", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death" }, { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby#Chapter_9", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:57" }, { "id": "21b37f4f-952f-45b8-af31-8f4291e99d0c", "slug": "even-where-the", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-shelley/frankenstein/even-where-the", "text": "Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. They know our infantine dispositions, which, however they may be afterwards modified, are never eradicated; and they can judge of our actions with more certain conclusions as to the integrity of our motives.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Mary Shelley", "slug": "mary-shelley", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-shelley" }, "book": { "title": "Frankenstein", "slug": "frankenstein", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-shelley/frankenstein" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" }, { "name": "childhood", "slug": "childhood", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/childhood" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frankenstein_(novel)#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:47" }, { "id": "af13473e-4f30-40c1-b7dc-19a4798c3b02", "slug": "we-are-unfashioned", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-shelley/frankenstein/we-are-unfashioned", "text": "We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves – such a friend ought to be – do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Mary Shelley", "slug": "mary-shelley", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-shelley" }, "book": { "title": "Frankenstein", "slug": "frankenstein", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-shelley/frankenstein" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frankenstein_(novel)#Quotes", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:46" }, { "id": "6ed07ddd-6e04-4571-b534-39707d227566", "slug": "i-have-one", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/mary-shelley/frankenstein/i-have-one", "text": "I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil, I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavor to sustain me in dejection. 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Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. \"Pooh!\" he whispered. \"Yes, Piglet?\" \"Nothing,\" said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. \"I just wanted to be sure of you.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "A.A. 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If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not, in fact, his friends. How else would one learn to avoid saying those things that would elicit laughter from strangers? The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.\"", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Dean Koontz", "slug": "dean-koontz", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz" }, "book": { "title": "Forever Odd", "slug": "forever-odd", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz/forever-odd" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "humor", "slug": "humor", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor" }, { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dean_Koontz#Forever_Odd_(2005)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:29" }, { "id": "a36dca75-fdc9-46d6-8fa0-738b8e16915b", "slug": "i-thought-of-you", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/dean-koontz/watchers/i-thought-of-you", "text": "I thought of you as my guardian, Einstein… you taught me that I'm your guardian, too, that I'm Travis's guardian, and he is my guardian and yours. 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A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. 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Whoever does not see in a good light has not been able to lift his mind up to what is there or his heart to what is good.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Joseph Joubert", "slug": "joseph-joubert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert" }, "book": { "title": "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert", "slug": "the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "love", "slug": "love", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love" }, { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Joubert#The_Notebooks_of_Joseph_Joubert_(1883)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:09" }, { "id": "797ebb20-b259-4985-b142-b2cd64b8acad", "slug": "we-always-lose", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert/we-always-lose", "text": "We always lose the friendship of those who lose our esteem.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Joseph Joubert", "slug": "joseph-joubert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert" }, "book": { "title": "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert", "slug": "the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" }, { "name": "respect", "slug": "respect", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/respect" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Joubert#The_Notebooks_of_Joseph_Joubert_(1883)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:45:09" }, { "id": "4c17412a-54fd-48bc-a8db-6b6589149089", "slug": "he-must-not", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-joubert/the-notebooks-of-joseph-joubert/he-must-not", "text": "He must not cultivate his friends, but cultivate his friendships within himself. 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Can you assess the danger a criminal poses by examining only what he does on an ordinary day? Can we understand health without considering wild diseases and epidemics? 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No such dreams and fantasies. Just a sense of complete acceptance. She belonged with Bean, not the way that a wife belonged with a husband or, God forbid, a girlfriend with a boyfriend, but rather way the left hand belonged to the right. They simply fit. Nothing exciting about it, nothing to write home about. 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And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ayn Rand", "slug": "ayn-rand", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand" }, "book": { "title": "Anthem", "slug": "anthem", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/anthem" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "freedom", "slug": "freedom", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom" }, { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand#Anthem_(1937)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:51" }, { "id": "6703342f-19f9-4425-a2ae-b72bf9c8b6b2", "slug": "it-was-worth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/the-case-book-of-sherlock-holmes/it-was-worth", "text": "It was worth a wound; it was worth many wounds; to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Arthur Conan Doyle", "slug": "arthur-conan-doyle", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle" }, "book": { "title": "The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes", "slug": "the-case-book-of-sherlock-holmes", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/the-case-book-of-sherlock-holmes" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 1053, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" }, { "name": "loyalty", "slug": "loyalty", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loyalty" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes#The_Adventure_of_the_Three_Garridebs", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:41:45" }, { "id": "fab8eec0-4f96-4f3c-8e3b-b9921aba41cb", "slug": "good-old-watson", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-conan-doyle/his-last-bow/good-old-watson", "text": "Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. 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"slug": "the-compleat-angler", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/izaak-walton/the-compleat-angler" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" }, { "name": "travel", "slug": "travel", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/travel" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Izaak_Walton#The_Compleat_Angler_(1653-1655)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:48" }, { "id": "94da8b78-608a-44b4-b72c-d8c6a1cad371", "slug": "i-love-such", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/izaak-walton/the-compleat-angler/i-love-such", "text": "I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": 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"text": "Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Izaak Walton", "slug": "izaak-walton", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/izaak-walton" }, "book": { "title": "The Compleat Angler", "slug": "the-compleat-angler", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/izaak-walton/the-compleat-angler" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" }, { "name": "conversation", "slug": "conversation", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/conversation" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Izaak_Walton#The_Compleat_Angler_(1653-1655)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:48" }, { "id": "b877b2ab-01bc-4c2f-b194-763f66c9264e", "slug": "the-first-sentiment", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/the-first-sentiment", "text": "The first sentiment of which the well-trained youth is capable is not love but friendship. The first work of his rising imagination is to make known to him his fellows; the species affects him before the sex. Here is another advantage to be gained from prolonged innocence; you may take advantage of his dawning sensibility to sow the first seeds of humanity in the heart of the young adolescent. This advantage is all the greater because this is the only time in his life when such efforts may be really successful.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau", "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau" }, "book": { "title": "Emile; or On Education", "slug": "emile-or-on-education", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" }, { "name": "youth", "slug": "youth", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/youth" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education#Book_IV", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:34" }, { "id": "a7981e77-ff70-44e4-9aed-42724c59ee04", "slug": "when-he-becomes", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/when-he-becomes", "text": "When he becomes capable of affection, he becomes aware of the affection of others, [Footnote: Affection may be unrequited; not so friendship. Friendship is a bargain, a contract like any other; though a bargain more sacred than the rest. The word \"friend\" has no other correlation. Any man who is not the friend of his friend is undoubtedly a rascal; for one can only obtain friendship by giving it, or pretending to give it.] and he is on the lookout for the signs of that affection. Do you not see how you will acquire a fresh hold on him? What bands have you bound about his heart while he was yet unaware of them! What will he feel, when he beholds himself and sees what you have done for him; when he can compare himself with other youths, and other tutors with you!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau", "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau" }, "book": { "title": "Emile; or On Education", "slug": "emile-or-on-education", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" }, { "name": "upbringing", "slug": "upbringing", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/upbringing" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education#Book_IV", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:34" }, { "id": "73188059-410f-4e93-a4bf-cfb7a2e18cbc", "slug": "be-sure-your", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education/be-sure-your", "text": "be sure your pupil, as he begins to understand the value of your care for him, will be grateful for it, provided you have not put a price upon it; and this will give you an authority over his heart which nothing can overthrow. But beware of losing this advantage before it is really yours, beware of insisting on your own importance. Boast of your services and they become intolerable; forget them and they will not be forgotten. Until the time comes to treat him as a man let there be no question of his duty to you, but his duty to himself. Let him have his freedom if you would make him docile; hide yourself so that he may seek you; raise his heart to the noble sentiment of gratitude by only speaking of his own interest. Until he was able to understand I would not have him told that what was done was for his good; he would only have understood such words to mean that you were dependent on him and he would merely have made you his servant. But now that he is beginning to feel what love is, he also knows what a tender affection may bind a man to what he loves; and in the zeal which keeps you busy on his account, he now sees not the bonds of a slave, but the affection of a friend. Now there is nothing which carries so much weight with the human heart as the voice of friendship recognised as such, for we know that it never speaks but for our good. We may think our friend is mistaken, but we never believe he is deceiving us.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Jean Jacques Rousseau", "slug": "jean-jacques-rousseau", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau" }, "book": { "title": "Emile; or On Education", "slug": "emile-or-on-education", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/jean-jacques-rousseau/emile-or-on-education" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" }, { "name": "upbringing", "slug": "upbringing", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/upbringing" }, { "name": "gratitude", "slug": "gratitude", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/gratitude" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emile,_or_On_Education#Book_IV", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:34" }, { "id": "c0e34f67-68fc-4f10-bb19-1d2480e4d5c5", "slug": "i-have-been", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham/the-summing-up/i-have-been", "text": "I have been forced to conclude from this that we know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "William Somerset Maugham", "slug": "william-somerset-maugham", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham" }, "book": { "title": "The Summing Up", "slug": "the-summing-up", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham/the-summing-up" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 214, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" }, { "name": "flaws", "slug": "flaws", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/flaws" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/W._Somerset_Maugham#The_Summing_Up_(1938)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:28" }, { "id": "a837f73e-a96a-467e-9076-747b10a7d9fb", "slug": "its-no-good", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-somerset-maugham/cakes-and-ale/its-no-good", "text": "It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. 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I have friends who are called capitalists, Socialists, and Communists! Some of my friends are moderates, conservatives, extremists — some are even Uncle Toms! My friends today are black, brown, red, yellow, and white!", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Malcolm X", "slug": "malcolm-x", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-x" }, "book": { "title": "The Autobiography of Malcolm X", "slug": "the-autobiography-of-malcolm-x", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-x/the-autobiography-of-malcolm-x" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": 375, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" }, { "name": "tolerance", "slug": "tolerance", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/tolerance" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Malcolm_X#The_Autobiography_of_Malcolm_X_(1965)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:24" }, { "id": "bb1420e6-e85c-4e32-a082-0259138aeb56", "slug": "their-friendship-was", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/keep-the-aspidistra-flying/their-friendship-was", "text": "Their friendship was at an end, it seemed to him. The evil time when he had lived on Ravelston had spoiled everything. Charity kills friendship.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "George Orwell", "slug": "george-orwell", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell" }, "book": { "title": "Keep the Aspidistra Flying", "slug": "keep-the-aspidistra-flying", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/keep-the-aspidistra-flying" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell#Keep_the_Aspidistra_Flying_(1936)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:10" }, { "id": "189b122b-0e2b-4e13-a021-649f5600380f", "slug": "everybody-is-friends", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/islands-in-the-stream/everybody-is-friends", "text": "Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.", "language": "en", "author": { "name": "Ernest Hemingway", "slug": "ernest-hemingway", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway" }, "book": { "title": "Islands in the Stream", "slug": "islands-in-the-stream", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/islands-in-the-stream" }, "character": null, "chapter": null, "chapter_parent": null, "page": null, "verified": false, "original": null, "other_languages": [], "topics": [ { "name": "friendship", "slug": "friendship", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship" } ], "source": { "name": "Wikiquote", "url": "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway#Islands_in_the_Stream_(1970)", "license": { "label": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" } }, "added_at": "2026-09-25T22:39:08" }, { "id": "fe537e36-69cf-492e-8343-49c859f37a4a", "slug": "why-cant-we-be-friends", "url": "https://www.leafyquotes.com/em-forster/a-passage-to-india/why-cant-we-be-friends", "text": "'Why can't we be friends now?' said the other, holding him affectionately. 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