Companionable Quotes

18 quotes by 13 authors

A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with… — Elwyn Brooks White
A river is the most human and companionable of all inanimate things. It has a life, a character, a voice of its own; and it… — Henry Van Dyke
With relish, Thomas More thus sketches Richard's character: He was close and secret, a deep dissembler, lowly of countenance, arrogant of heart, outwardly companionable where… — Richard III of England
A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in… — P.D. James
Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours. — Mark Doty
Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false… — Elwyn Brooks White
A Hamburger is warm and fragrant and juicy. A hamburger is soft and nonthreatening. It personifies the Great Mother herself who has nourished us from… — Tom Robbins
Editing is the most companionable form of education. — Ed Weeks
Lizards of every temper, style, and color dwell here, seemingly as happy and companionable as the birds and squirrels. — John Muir
I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. — Henry David Thoreau
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among… — Henry David Thoreau
In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ...… — Elizabeth Goudge
More poignant for us, at Laetoli in Tanzania are the companionable footprints of three real hominids, probably Australopithecus afarensis, walking together 3.6 million years ago… — Richard Dawkins
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and… — Henry David Thoreau
I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
When Ronan thought of Gansey, he thought of moving into Monmouth Manufacturing, of nights spent in companionable insomnia, of a summer searching for a king,… — Maggie Stiefvater
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. — Henry David Thoreau
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude — Henry David Thoreau

Who Wrote These Companionable Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 18 Companionable Quotes as follows: