All LORD CHESTERFIELD Quotes about “Friendship”

“Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.”
“Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.”
“People will, in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you upon that which they have of your friends; and there is a Spanish proverb which says vry justly, 'Tell me whom you live with, and I will tell you who you are.'”
“In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business.”
“The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.”
“Ties of blood are not always ties of friendship; but friendship founded on merit, on esteem, and on mutual trust, becomes more vital and more tender when strengthened by the ties of blood.”

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