Levin wanted friendship and got friendliness; he wanted steak and they offered spam.

-Malamud, Bernard
A New Life, pt.6.

Immortal Spenser, no frailty hath thy fame but the imputation of this idiot's friendship!

-Nashe,Thomas
  Strange News of the Intercepting Certain Letters.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

-Poe, EdgarAllan
  'The Black Cat', in the United States Saturday Post,19 Aug.

   La grande amitie¤   n'est jamais tranquille. Great friendship is never peaceful.

-Se¤  vigne¤  , Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de
Letter to Mme de Grignan,16 Sep.

Even if we take marriage at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
Virginibus Puerisque,'Virginibus Puerisque', pt.1.

An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labour, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!

-Thomson,James pseudonym 'BV',ByssheVanolis
  The Seasons,'Spring', l.1161^4.

Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

-Wallis, Hal
  Closing words of Casablanca, one of his contributions to a script largely written by the Epstein twins and Howard Koch.