Born Quote by August Strindberg

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

— Oscar Wilde

Friendship can exist between persons of different sexes, without any coarse or sensual feelings; yet a woman always looks upon a man as a…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose…

— Charles Alexander Eastman

A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

People are shaped by friendship as much as by romance.

— Elif Batuman

Men and women can be friends, and it can just be friendly.

— Jonathan Van Ness

Friendship is a bond between persons who may not be equal in qualification, talent, money or age but equal in their commitment to understand…

— Nit

Men and women can absolutely be friends, and that's what we need to be. Part of the problem is that we aren't friends enough.…

— Hill Harper

Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this; the lovers,…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is,…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience…

— Anna Garlin Spencer