Oliver Wendell Holmes Friendship Quotations

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

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 more necessary do tact and courtesy become.