Friendship Quotes

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;But do not dull thy palm with entertainmentOf each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.

William Shakespeare

Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies.

Orson Scott Card

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

Marie de France

I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.

Hank Haney

Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith.

Henry David Thoreau

If I was harsh with you, it was because I cannot bear to see you treat yourself as if you are worth nothing. Whatever part you might act to the contrary, I see you as you really are, my blood brother. Not just better than you pretend to be, but better than most people could hope to be.

Cassandra Clare

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

Emma Bunton

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one

C.S. Lewis

Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond there of virtue

Samuel Johnson

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

Madeleine Albright

Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.

Stephen King

When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition.

Aristotle

Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.

Max Jacob

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friendship and money: oil and water.

Mario Puzo

Your friendship with her-it sleeps with the fishes.

John Green

Love and friendship exclude each other.

Jean de la Bruyere

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.

Georg Brandes

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

Francis Marion Crawford