Closest friends Quote by Antoine Rivarol

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

— Antoine Rivarol

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.

— Martin Freeman

I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other…

— Martin Freeman

Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.

— Luc de Clapiers

Hatred is stronger than friendship.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship.

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because…

— Bertrand Russell

If we are to judge of love by the consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

— Francois La Rochefoucauld

To have the same likes and dislikes, therein consists the firmest bond of friendship.

— Sallust

Nothing better forges a bond of love, friendship or respect than common hatred toward something.

— Anton Chekhov