Class Quote by Ptolemy

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

— Oscar Wilde

“Friendship is no ideal state of mind; it is a law, and a strict one, on which the entire legal systems of great cultures…

— Sándor Márai

Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with…

— August Strindberg

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue…

— Thomas Carlyle

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

“One enjoys friendship most when times are good, when the sun shines and the world is kind. But it is the sharing of adversity…

— John Christopher

Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue.

— Mencius

The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing in which…

— Andre Maurois

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