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Friendship Quotes


"Whoever is present in your spring would more than likely have respected your winter."


"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."



"Leo, Jason said, "you're weird."Yeah, you tell me that a lot. Leo grinned. "But if you don't remember me, that means I can reuse all my old jokes...!"


"Friendship is based on trust and treating others kindly."


"A true friend lets you know that the door is always open, even when it's closed."



"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne."



"There is nothing I want but your presence.In friendship, time dissolves.Life is a cup. This connectionis pure wine. What else are cups for?I used to have twenty thousanddifferent desires."



"A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend - and he's a priest."


"A friend is a person whom you can love without judging and share your thoughts without fearing."


"They were the best sort of friends. The sort everyone hopes for but no one deserves, least of all me."


"Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead."


"The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back."


"Never be an insincere friend, never be manipulative, one day you will be discovered and lose everything."



"Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family."



"Be a friend to thyself and others will be so too."


"There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self."



"He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends."


"The benefit of being friends will vastly outweigh the benefit of being enemies."


"Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one."


"Never injure a friend, even in jest."


"Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands."


"Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend."


"If you ever doubt anything here, if you ever not know what to think or who to trust, you trust Todd, okay? You remember that."


"Love everyone but chose your friends with caution."


"The only thing that can create discord between friends is money and women."


"Golden retrievers are not bred to be guard dogs, and considering the size of their hearts and their irrepressible joy in life, they are less likely to bite than to bark, less likely to bark than to lick a hand in greeting. In spite of their size, they think they are lap dogs, and in spite of being dogs, they think they are also human, and nearly every human they meet is judged to have the potential to be a boon companion who might, at many moment, cry, "Let's go!" and lead them on a great adventure."


"Our friends have a way of reminding us of how fabulous we are when the rest of the world has forgotten."


"I like having you around, Britt. That's the truth. I'm not leaving you. Even if you were a pain in the butt, I'd stay with you. It's the right thing to do. But it turns out I find you likable and interesting, and while I'm not glad you have to go through this, I'm glad we have each other."


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


"Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own?"


"Friendship happens when the distance between the hearts tends to zero."


"True friends don't send sms, they give a phone call."


"The quality of a friend is one who can touch your heart and soul from across the world or across the room. Trust that person who can see through the sadness behind your smile. The one who can hear your words in your silence, can feel your love in your anger, trust them. They are your REAL, TRUE and PURE friends."


"Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts."


"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you."


"Ronan's bedroom door burst open. Hanging on the door frame, Ronan leaned out to peer past Gansey. He was doing that thing where he looked like both the dangerous Ronan he was now and the cheerier Ronan he had been when Gansey first met him."Hold on," Gansey told Adam. Then, to Ronan: "Why would he be?""No reason. Just no reason." Ronan slammed his door.Gansey asked Adam, "Sorry. You still have that suit for the party?"Adam's response was buried in the sound of the second-story door falling open. Noah slouched in. In a wounded tone, he said, "He threw me out the window!"Ronan's voice sang out from behind his closed door: "You're already dead!"


"If your heart tends to force friends to do as you say,seed of discord is being planted in your relationship."


"Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends."


"The Purpose of Friendship to Me is Having One to Complement Not One to Compete with!"


"Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others."


"I love a minister whose faces invite me to make him my friend."


"What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?"


"Two friends... let's put them place... they have never been in jail, give them a knife some reasonable conflicts some doubts and watch the effect."


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


"Friends are an aid to the young to guard them from error to the elderly to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action to those in the prime of life to assist them to noble deeds."


"If you want friends you must be friendly. Always complaining and posting negative comments is not going to bring you friends. No one likes to get puked on."
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