Quotes on Great Friend

Writing is a deep-sea dive. You need hours just to get into it: down, down, down. If you're called back to the surface every couple of minutes by an email, you can't ever get back down. I have a great friend who became a Twitterer and he says he hasn't written anything for a year.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed, and the culture he defined.

To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and, above all, a true gentleman.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

My hand is entirely the implement of a distant sphere. It is not my head that functions but something else, something higher, something somewhere remote. I must have great friends there, dark as well as bright. They are all very kind to me.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.