Explore Quotes on Friendship

If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Some people live where they work. Others just visit.​

...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.

I feel about my dogs now, and all the dogs I had prior to this, the way I feel about children—they are that important to me. When I have lost a dog I have gone into a mourning period that lasted for months.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

You had to know a person well to make them laugh like that.

A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.

Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.

Tell me what company thou keepest and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?

A true friend is someone who never gets tired listening to your pointless drama over and over again.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.