Friendship Quotes
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Agreement in likes and dislikes - this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.
Catiline
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Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.
Marcel Proust
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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.
William James
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One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.
Seneca the Younger
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When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
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I was the one with all the glory, while you were the one with all the strength. Only a face without a name, and I never once heard you complain.
Gary Morris
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God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.
Ray Bradbury
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By the time I sit down and face the blank page I am raring to go. I tell it as if I'm talking to my best friend or one of my grandchildren.
Michael Morpurgo
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The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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The group has always been based on friendship and a certain attitude.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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Friendship often grows out of shared experiences.
Andrew Hacker
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When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil.
Plato
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
Seneca the Younger
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It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not real friendship.
Haruki Murakami
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Love is a friendship set to music.
Joseph Campbell
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At first an ordeal and then an accomplishment, the daily run becomes a staple, like bread, or wine, a fine marriage, or air. It is also a free pass to friendship.
Benjamin Cheever
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The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.
Suzanne Brockmann
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I was just flirting with girls whom I had tingly feelings for because... well, you know... friendship.
Hannah Hart
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What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather?
Charles Dickens
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Happy is love or friendship when returned-- The lovers whose pure flames have equal burned.
Bion of Smyrna
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The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
Thomas More
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I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.
Virginia Woolf
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Those who fit in neatly at church, those who are hyper-focused on the “law” are told to repent, but the sinners, tax collectors, and prostitutes are invited to sit down for dinner, to share a glass of wine, and to build a friendship.
Benjamin L. Corey