Failing Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other…

— Anonymous

We only make a dupe of the friend whose advice we ask, for we never tell him all; and it is usually what we…

— Diane de Poitiers

“Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the…

— Oliver Wendall Holmes

The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains…

— Henrik Ibsen

“You can't foster a relationship with someone who is always checking your performance to make sure it's adequate enough to merit his friendship.”

— Jake Colsen

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

— Anonymous

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

— Anonymous

The noblest part of a friend is an honest boldness in the notifying of errors. He that tells me of a fault, aiming at…

— Owen Feltham

Friendship is in the end no more than: " . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."

— Marcel Proust

The success of a close friend is often wounding, especially if he has been poor for so long.

— Tom Baker

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.

— William Shakespeare

A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.

— John Lubbock