Top 34 Quotes About Friendship C S Lewis

#1. People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.

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#2. Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed ...

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#3. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art ... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

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#4. Friendship is the happiest and most fully human of all loves, the crown of life.

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#5. While friendship has been by far the chief source of my happiness, acquaintance or general society has always meant little to me, and I cannot quite understand why a man should wish to know more people than he can make real friends of.

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#6. Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all.

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#7. Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.

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#8. What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.

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#9. It (friendship) has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which gives value to survival.

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#10. Friendship is ... the sort of love one can
imagine between angels ...

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#11. If we cannot persuade our friends by reasons we must be content "and not bring a mercenary army to our aid" (He meant passions.)

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#12. Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.

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#13. It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past ...

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#14. No one can mark the exact moment at which friendship becomes love.

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#15. We meet like sovereign princes of independent states, abroad, on neutral ground, freed from our contexts

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#16. The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

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#17. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

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#18. The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.

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#19. You Too? I thought I was the only one.

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#20. Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too?

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#21. I had rather that the human race, having a certain quality in their lives, should continue for only a few centuries than that, losing freedom, friendship, dignity, and mercy, and learning to be quite content without them, they should continue for millions of millennia.

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#22. Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You too? I thought that no one but myself ...

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#23. It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual.

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#24. Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue; but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

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#25. Friendship with the latter marked the breakdown of two old prejudices. At my first coming into the world I had been (implicitly) warned never to trust a Papist, and at my first coming into the English Faculty (explicitly) never to trust a philologist. Tolkien was both.

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#26. The great art of life is to moderate our passions. Objects of affection are like other belongings. We must love them enough to enrich our lives while we have them, not enough to impoverish our lives when they are gone.

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#27. We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

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#28. Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

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#29. Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.

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#30. Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.

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#31. Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction.

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#32. My friendship you shall have, leanred Man," piped Reepicheep. "And any Dwarf
or Giant
in the army who does not give you good language shall have my sword to reckon with.

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#33. To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue. The modern world, in comparison, ignores it.

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#34. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets.

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