Friendship Quotes

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Orson Welles

Simone de Beauvoir

George Washington

Kahlil Gibran

Cicero

Terence

C. S. Lewis

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence; true friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Simone de Beauvoir

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Many a time,… from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.

Charles Caleb Colton

A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

Augustine Birrell

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist... The therapy effected by life itself is not, however, within one's control. Neither hardships nor friendships nor religious experience can be arranged to meet the needs of the particular individual. Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may entirely crush another.

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Katherine Mansfield

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.

All love that has not friendship for its base,
Is like a mansion built upon the sand.
Love, to endure life's sorrow and earth's woe,
Needs friendship's solid masonwork below.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Love is like the wild rose-briar;
Friendship like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms,
But which will bloom most constantly?

Alternative translation: In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Dag Hammarskjöld

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Oliver Goldsmith

Friendship has always belonged to the core of my spiritual journey.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

William Wycherley