Comparison Quote by C. S. Lewis

“To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue. The…

— C.S. Lewis

Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.

— Anonymous

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

— Anonymous

Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is…

— Anonymous

When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed. But as…

— Abigail McCarthy

It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the…

— C. S. Lewis

Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love.

— Lisa Kleypas

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

— George Edward Woodberry

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

Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination…

— Henry David Thoreau

Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.

— Henry Clay Trumbull