Quotes on Real Friends

It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.

I spent a lot of years on the road, and what happens is you find out who your real friends are and you find out where your strengths and weaknesses lie in communication. I've had the same friends for 20 years now and I can count them on one hand.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Among true and real friends, all is common; and were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friend.

It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

Friendship is not to be sought for its wages, but because its revenue consists entirely in the love which it implies.

It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

For he, indeed, who looks into the face of a friend beholds, as it were, a copy of himself.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

There is flattery in friendship.

Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice_x000D_ _x000D_ And could of men distinguish her election,_x000D_ _x000D_ Sh'ath sealed thee for herself.

That which I would discover_x000D_ _x000D_ The law of friendship bids me to conceal.

To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,_x000D_ _x000D_ Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;_x000D_ _x000D_ But where there is true friendship, there needs none.

Keep thy friend_x000D_ _x000D_ Under thy own life's key.

Friendship is the next pleasure we may hope for: and where we find it not at home, or have no home to find it in, we may seek it abroad. It is an union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.

Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.

Friendship and love are impossible without a mutual vulnerability.

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

I would not enter on my list of friends_x000D_ _x000D_ (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense,_x000D_ _x000D_ Yet wanting sensibility) the man_x000D_ _x000D_ Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.

For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.