friendship literature quotes [paulina gtz.]*

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
- Jane Austen Northanger Abbey

She was truest to them in the season of trial, as all the quietly loyal and good will always be.
-Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities

"Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love . . ."
-William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing

"If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!' your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not?"
-Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities

His friends were those of his own blood or those whom he had known the longest; his affections, like ivy, were the growth of time, they implied no aptness in the object.
-Robert Louis Stevenson