Intimate Friends Quotes

17 quotes by 17 authors

An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew,… — Sigmund Freud
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
A couple you do not recognize - visitors, strangers - come to the door. How are you to view these people and what is your… — Thomas G. Long
Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself. — Robert Schumann
A collective insanity seemed to have seized the nation and turned them into something worse than beasts. The princess de Lamballe, Marie Antoinette's intimate friend,… — J. Christopher Herold
One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be… — Henry David Thoreau
Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief. — Mark Twain
After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive… — Louise Brooks
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. — Homer
From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books… — Betty Smith
I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
We do not always proclaim loudly the most important thing we have to say. Nor do we always privately share it with those closest to… — Walter Benjamin
I cried sobbingly until at last those visions reeking with blood came to comfort me. And then I surrendered myself to them, to those deplorably… — Yukio Mishima
Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet… — Roger Scruton
In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing… — Joseph Addison
A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Who Wrote These Intimate Friends Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 17 Intimate Friends Quotes as follows: