Friendship Quotes

Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason.

George Orwell

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

Samuel Johnson

I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.

Stefanie Powers

She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.

Jane Austen

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings

Friedrich Nietzsche

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

King Solomon

Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed somehow to risk diminishment if it were uttered aloud.

Christopher Hitchens

His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come whether in a month in a year or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione.

J.K. Rowling

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

C.S. Lewis

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.

Thomas Jefferson

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

Aristotle

(...) and then I realized there was no one else to call, which was the saddest thing. The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Water's death was Augustus Water.

John Green

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

Samuel Johnson

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Abraham Lincoln

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Chanakya

Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's just something you are.

John Green

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau

Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!

J.K. Rowling