His soul overflowed with ardent affections, and his friendship was of that devoted and wondrous nature that the world-minded teach us to look for only in the imagination.

- Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley - Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

We were affectionate playfellows during childhood, and, I believe, dear and valued friends to one another as we grew older. But as brother and sister often entertain a lively affection towards each other without desiring a more intimate union, may not such also be our case?

- Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley - Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Often, when wearied by a toilsome march, I persuaded myself that I was dreaming until night should come and that I should then enjoy reality in the arms of my dearest friends.

- Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley - Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

I have longed for a friend; I have sought one who would sympathise with and love me.

- Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley - Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

I forgive my friends. I forget my enemies.

- David Graham Phillips - The Fortune Hunter

His mind could get along without belief, but his heart could not get along without friendship.

- The Works of Victor Hugo

One doesn't desert one's friends in a scrape.

- The Works of Victor Hugo

That's why we get on well together, my coat and I. It has acquired all my folds, it does not bind me anywhere, it is moulded on my deformities, it falls in with all my movements, I am only conscious of it because it keeps me warm. Old coats are just like old friends.

- The Works of Victor Hugo

I don't know you, but I want to help you. You must be a friend.

- The Works of Victor Hugo

You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without wishing to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion.

- Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

The youths who are satisfied with the ordinary pleasures of life, and do not sigh after ideal phantoms of love and friendship, will never arrive at great maturity of understanding.

- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) Maria (or The Wrongs of Woman

While he basked in the warm sunshine of love, friendship also promised to shed its dewy freshness;

- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) Maria (or The Wrongs of Woman

I longed to see new characters, to break the tedious monotony of my life; and to find a friend, such as fancy had portrayed

- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) Maria (or The Wrongs of Woman

Genuine fortitude consisted in governing our own emotions, and making allowance for the weaknesses in our friends, that we would not tolerate in ourselves.

- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) Maria (or The Wrongs of Woman

He took her hand at parting, and held it so warmly that she, who had known so little friendship, was much affected, and tears rose to her aerial-grey eyes.

- Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge

He was plainly under that strange influence which sometimes prompts men to confide to the new-found friend what they will not tell to the old.

- Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge

Friendship between man and man; what a rugged strength there was in it.

- Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge

If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

- George Eliot - Middlemarch

With a favour to ask we review our list of friends, do justice to their more amiable qualities, forgive their little offences, and concerning each in turn, try to arrive at the conclusion that he will be eager to oblige us, our own eagerness to be obliged being as communicable as other warmth.

- George Eliot - Middlemarch

He could remain her brotherly friend, interpreting her actions with generous trustfulness.

- George Eliot - Middlemarch

I am ashamed to trouble you, but you are the only friend I can consult. I told you everything once before, and you were so good that I can't help coming to you again.

- George Eliot - Middlemarch

As to friends, I have no expectations whatever from them, and shall not ask them for anything.

- George Eliot - Middlemarch

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