Absent Friend Quotes

#1. (T)here were always vacancies in the construct of life: blank spaces occupied by the unseen guest, the absent friend.

Stephanie Kallos

#2. The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret
that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#3. Never speak ill of an absent friend.

Plautus

#4. An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#5. If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.

Heloise D'Argenteuil

#6. He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.

Horace

#7. Memory has the singular characteristic of recalling in a friend absent, as in a journey long past, only that which is agreeable.

Charles Dudley Warner

#8. Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.

Alexander Pope

#9. Possession of a friend should be with the spirit: the spirit's never absent: it sees daily whoever it likes.

Seneca.