Explore Quotes on Friendship

Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends.

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.

Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.

No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?

A friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself.

A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.

Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.

Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.