Charlotte Bronte Quotes

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

A lot of the girls my age were impressed by silly stuff like money and fame. I wanted to be able to have intellectual and spiritual conversations with someone who was on the same page as me.

Everybody has a bit of body armor they wear to protect themselves, and love is about trying to break it down. You have to see who a person really is and connect with her to break that armor.

Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

He who hath many friends hath none.

I guess I have friends around me but when you're paying them can they ever really be true friends?

Our friendship was based on my payouts. That wasn't a friendship when - as, for example, it's me, my friends, we are friends for many years, and it doesn't matter for me what the position is, where they work; we simply are friends. And with Mr. Berezovsky, our friendship was based on my payoffs.

When you've known someone for so long you never lose that friendship.

Sometimes on-camera friends don't translate into your real life, but not for me.

I believe the best friendships are forged with those you can be yourself with.

I have my friends who like me because I'm me and not because I'm in films, and that's really important to me. They tell me, 'You look terrible; don't wear that,' or 'That joke wasn't funny,' and that's really important: they keep me grounded.

I had never been with a woman for longer than a night, and they had always been whores. And while throughout each of these speedy encounters I tried to maintain a friendliness with the women, I knew in my heart it was false, and afterward always felt remote and caved in. I had in the last year or so given up whores entirely, thinking it best to go without rather than pantomime human closeness.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

Did you know that wherever you find fool's gold, real gold exists somewhere nearby? This also goes for relationships and friendships. Real gold is found in the heart. For every piece of fake gold that you discard, remember that true gold isn't too far.

It is expressions of affection rather than money and power that attract real friends.

Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.

Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

If we merely try to impress people and get people interested in us, we will never have many true, sincere friends. Friends, real friends, are not made that way.

You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing.

The best part about having true friends is that you can go months without seeing them and they'll still be there for you and act as if you'd never left!

A FRIEND IS A PERSON . . . With whom you can be sincere. . . . To whom you never need to defend yourself. . . . On whom you can depend whether present or absent. . . . With whom you never need pretend. . . . To whom you can reveal yourself without fear of betrayal. . . . Who does not feel she owns you because you are her friend. . . . Who will not selfishly use you because she has your confidence. I WOULD HAVE SUCH A FRIEND. . . AND I WOULD BE SUCH A FRIEND. I DO HAVE SUCH A FRIEND!

Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.