William Hazlitt Friendship Quotations

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.

The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.

Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.

The soil of friendship is worn out with constant use. Habit may still attach us to each other, but we feel ourselves fettered by it. Old friends might be compared to old married people without the tie of children.

The youth is better than the old age of friendship.

True friendship is self-love at second-hand.