Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.


Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt]. (ed. 1837)

William Hazlitt Quotes

Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.

Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.

Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.

Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.