“The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship...” — James Whistler Quote

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.

You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

The big, big block in the Arthur/Merlin friendship is the status issue, that Merlin is the servant and Arthur is royalty, and in that time, princes did not socialize with their servants; that wasn't the done thing. It just so happens that their relationship, their friendship, is strong: they have been through the thick and the thin of it all.

My friends are my estate.