Quote#Friendship
I have seemed cold to my friends, but it was not in my heart
Quote byJohn Russell, 1st Earl Russell · 1792–1878
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Comment during final illness, as recalled by his nephew George W. E. Russell in Prime Ministers and Some Others, 1918, p. 24.
English (original)
I have seemed cold to my friends, but it was not in my heart.
— John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
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