It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.
Paul Simon

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
Jean de la Bruyere

Love and friendship exclude each other.
Jean de la Bruyere

Love is friendship set on fire.
Jeremy Taylor

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Jeremy Taylor

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.
Richard Burton

Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
Petrarch

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
Sydney Smith

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Edward Gibbon

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.
Charles Lamb

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

All lasting business is built on friendship.
Alfred A. Montapert

Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
George Jean Nathan

So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations.
John Tyler

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
Hilaire Belloc

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.
Ernie Banks

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
Namie Amuro

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.
Katherine Mansfield

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
Oliver Goldsmith