Quotes on Friendship

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.

Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.

I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.

A decent boldness ever meets with friends.

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.

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.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love.

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.