Quote#Friendship
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded
Quote byGertrude Stein · 1874–1946
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: This phrase was used as the title of a work published in 1931, but was originally used in Ch. LXII of A Novel of Thank You, written in 1925-1926, but not published until 1958 by the Yale University Press.
English (original)
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
— Gertrude Stein
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