Friendship Quotes

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

Judy Holliday

The First [Friend] is the alter ego, the man who first reveals to you that you are not alone in the world by turning out (beyond hope) to share all your most secret delights. There is nothing to be overcome in making him your friend; he and you join like raindrops on a window. But the Second Friend is the man who disagrees with you about everything. He is not so much the alter ego as the antiself. Of course he shares your interests; otherwise he would not become your friend at all. But he has approached them all at a different angle. He has read all the right books but has got the wrong thing out of every one. It is as if he spoke your language but mispronounced it. How can he be so nearly right and yet, invariably, just not right? He is as fascinating (and infuriating) as a woman. When you set out to correct his heresies, you will find that he forsooth to correct yours! And then you go at it, hammer and tongs, far into the night, night after night, or walking through fine country that neither gives a glance to, each learning the weight of the other's punches, and often more like mutually respectful enemies than friends. Actually (though it never seems so at the time) you modify one another's thought; out of this perpetual dogfight a community of mind and a deep affection emerge.

C.S. Lewis

The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend.

Stephen Richards

A fit, healthy body that is the best fashion statement

Jess C. Scott

Some people you meet and they're your friend for a day. Some you meet and you never really know at all. And then there are those who get caught inside your soul and stay there forever.

Melodie Ramone

In love there are no friends everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open.

Victor Hugo

The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.

Eamon de Valera

Aristotle uses a mother's love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.

Mortimer Adler

My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.

Tom Lehrer

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

Gertrude Stein

One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.

Dan Fouts

the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That's just what best friends do.

Sara Shepard

You're the one who is weak. You will never know love or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.

J.K. Rowling

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

James Joyce

Leave this touching and clawing. Let him be to me a spirit. A message, a thought, a sincerity, a glance from him, I want, but not news nor pottage. I can get politics, and chat, and neighborly conveniences from cheaper companions. Should not the society of my friend be to me poetic, pure, universal, and great as nature itself? Ought I to feel that our tie is profane in comparison with yonder bar of cloud that sleeps on the horizon, or that clump of waving grass that divides the brook? Let us not vilify, bur raise it to that standard. That great, defying eye, that scornful beauty of his mien and action, do not pique yourself on reducing, but rather fortify and enhance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Albert Einstein

A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

Christopher Hitchens

Deal with him, Hemingway!

James Joyce

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Hilaire Belloc

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.

Aristotle