Quotes about friendship

Welcome to our Friendship collection, a heartwarming tribute to the bonds that enrich our lives and illuminate our journeys. In this curated compilation of quotes, we delve into the extraordinary world of friendship, celebrating the camaraderie, support, and laughter that friends bring to our days.

Friendship is more than a connection; it's a tapestry of shared moments, inside jokes, and unwavering support that weaves its threads through the fabric of our lives. Our Friendship quotes honor the beauty of kindred spirits, the lessons they teach us, and the profound impact they have on shaping our character.

Whether you're reflecting on cherished friendships, seeking insights into building lasting connections, or simply interested in the dynamics of human relationships, these quotes offer glimpses into the treasured bonds that touch our hearts.

Embark on a journey that explores the art of fostering deep connections, the joys of companionship, and the profound impact of true friends on our well-being. Discover the laughter that heals, the shared adventures that create memories, and the comfort that comes from knowing there's always someone who has your back.

Kathryn Stockett
Kathryn Stockett
Novelist
Oh, it was delicious to have someone to keep secrets with. If I'd had a sister or a brother closer in age, I guessed that's what it would be like. But it wasn't just smoking or skirting around Mother. It was having someone look at you after your mother has nearly fretted herself to death because you are freakishly tall and frizzy and odd. Someone whose eyes simply said, without words, You are fine with me.
Alicia Machado
Alicia Machado
Actress
But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.
Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is the most haunting of her life, though it is one-sided and ends in tragedy.
A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer - to be living a kind of double life.
Sarah Vowell
Sarah Vowell
Author
Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.
Flora Thompson
Flora Thompson
Novelist
What greater restoratives have we poor mortals than a good meal taken in the company of loving friends?
James Fitzjames Stephen
James Fitzjames Stephen
Eminent Lawyer, Judge & Thoughtful Writer
To try to regulate the internal affairs of a family, the relations of love or friendship, or many other things of the same sort, by law or by the coercion of public opinion, is like trying to pull an eyelash out of a man's eye with a pair of tongs. They may put out the eye, but they will never get hold of the eyelash
E. B. White
E. B. White
Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved Classics
You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
Peter Deunov
Peter Deunov
Spiritual Teacher & Philosopher
If you wish to befriend someone, look for a person who loves first God then themselves. If they love God, they will be able to love their neighbor, too.
Harvey Mackay
Harvey Mackay
Business Guru & Motivational Speaker
It's the oldest, corniest piece of advice in the world but it still works. The strongest networks are built on friendship. Be a friend not only to the people in your network, but to the people who matter the most to the people in your network.
Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig
Iconic James Bond Actor
I've seen a lot in my life, and everybody goes down the dark, winding staircase eventually. It's a bad place to be and that's why having good friends is always essential. Those are the people who pull you out.
M. F. K. Fisher
M. F. K. Fisher
Pioneering Food Writer
A well-made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged creature.
Aisha Tyler
Aisha Tyler
American actress, comedian, director, and talk show host
I'm the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.
Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell
American actor, comedian, producer, and writer
In every circle of friends there's always that one person everyone secretly hates. Don't have one? Then it's probably you.
Thomas Kyd
Thomas Kyd
English playwright, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama
I'll trust myself, myself shall be my friend.
Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire
American country music singer, actress and businesswoman
I can't imagine living a life without God in my life. He is my best friend, He's my buddy, He's the one that I talk to when there's no one around. I talk to Him when people are around a lot too. He's my confidant, He's my advisor, He's my director. I just don't know why you wouldn't want that in your life. He's just like a bodyguard, He is your protector.
Bipasha Basu
Bipasha Basu
Indian actress and model
Yes, exes can be good friends, but after a certain time. Though no break-up is a good break-up, time heals everything, including broken friendships. It also depends on the kind of people they are, their mindsets and the reasons for the break ups.
Craig Stone
Craig Stone
English footballer
Ask questions then talk over answers, shout loudly you love everyone, try and hug people, confide in them that you are a sheep, offer them the last grass in your pockets. Then watch with a smile as they pretend you aren't there, and whisper you must be crazy, because you want to make friends.
Niecy Nash
Niecy Nash
American actress, comedian and television host
If you make your best friend and your significant other the same person, you don't have to disconnect to go tell your girlfriend everything.
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French Philosopher
How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, and journalist
I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.
Brian Jacques
Brian Jacques
English novelist
You will find joy, frustration and sorrow in your quest. Never forget that friendship and loyalty are more precious than riches...Happiness can be brief, but it knows no time in the land of dreams.
David Hume
David Hume
Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayist
...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that, according to the past experience of mankind, friendship is the chief joy of human life and moderation the only source of tranquillity and happiness.
Herman Melville
Herman Melville
American novelist, short story writer
Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.
Ann Landers
Ann Landers
Columnist
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Carole King
Carole King
American Songwriter
Everybody understands friendship, and friendship is different than love - it's a different kind of love. Friendship has more freedom, more latitude. You don't expect your friend to be as you think your friend should be; you expect your friend just to love you as a friend.
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
English Writer
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English poet, translator, and satirist of the Augustan period
No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.
Bilal Philips
Bilal Philips
Canadian Islamic teacher, speaker, author, founder and chancellor of the International Open University, who lives in Qatar
A wife and a husband should be regarded as friends for the sake of Allaah. And that friendship is above material needs; each encouraging the other one to do good deeds, which are pleasing to Allaah.
Christian Lacroix
Christian Lacroix
French Designer
I look for friends who make me laugh.
Charles Stanley
Charles Stanley
American Clergyman
In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
English Scientist
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
Carl Icahn
Carl Icahn
American Businessman
You learn in this business: It you want a friend, get a dog.
Calista Flockhart
Calista Flockhart
American Actress
I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that's how I like it to be.
Caleb Carr
Caleb Carr
American Novelist
Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.
Confucius
Confucius
Chinese Philosopher
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
British Writer
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie
English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple
Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend.
Addison Mizner
Addison Mizner
American Architect
God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.
Adam DeVine
Adam DeVine
American Comedian
I think making friends is not being afraid to look stupid, because everyone wants a friend who is willing to be stupid and fun. If you try and be too cool, it only works in high school. After that, being uncool is a very cool thing to do. So just have fun, and don't worry what other people think of you and people will want to be your friends.
Alex Joseph Pritchard
Alex Joseph Pritchard
British Dancer
My brother is my best friend by choice and a superman.
Adrian Anthony Gill
Adrian Anthony Gill
British journalist, critic, and author
So, being a good man is not an exam or a qualification, it changes, and it incorporates being a good friend, a good father, a good employee, a good boss, a good neighbour and a good citizen.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
German Philosopher
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Arthur Ashe
Arthur Ashe
American Tennis Player
We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
Aristotle
Aristotle
Greek Philosopher
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Allyson Felix
Allyson Felix
American Athlete
The biggest way I stay motivated is to run with a group of friends. Sometimes it's hard to get going by yourself, but if you have a plan and a meeting time, you know this run will happen for sure. It's a way to have fun - while also getting in a workout. Plus it distracts from pain, helps you fight fatigue, and gives you that extra push.
Aesop
Aesop
Greek Author
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
American President
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Christian Dior
Christian Dior
French fashion designer, best known as the founder of one of the world's top fashion houses Christian Dior SE
All I required to be happy was friendship and people I could admire.
Kathryn Stockett
Kathryn Stockett
Novelist
Rule Number One for working for a white lady, Minny: it is nobody’s business. You keep your nose out of your White Lady’s problems, you don’t go crying to her with yours—you can’t pay the light bill? Your feet are too sore? Remember one thing: white people are not your friends. They don’t want to hear about it. And when Miss White Lady catches her man with the lady next door, you keep out of it, you hear me?
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
E. B. White
E. B. White
Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved Classics
Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.
Harvey Mackay
Harvey Mackay
Business Guru & Motivational Speaker
Friends are made by many acts...and lost by only one.
Daniel Craig
Daniel Craig
Iconic James Bond Actor
I love that my friends are all freaks.
Aisha Tyler
Aisha Tyler
American actress, comedian, director, and talk show host
I like the company of guys. I have a lot of good girlfriends that I really love, but you know, most of my close friends are men.
Thomas Kyd
Thomas Kyd
English playwright, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama
Fear shall force what friendship cannot win.
Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire
American country music singer, actress and businesswoman
To me, being popular means I've got more friends. You've got to watch who your friends are, if you want to get close to them, but I've got a lot of acquaintances. And then, you've got to be real careful who your friends are, because you never know why they're your friend.
David Hume
David Hume
Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian and essayist
Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without jealousies or fears, and without those feverish fits of heat and cold, which cause such an agreeable torment in the amorous passion.
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French Philosopher
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
English Writer
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Confucius
Confucius
Chinese Philosopher
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
British Writer
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Aristotle
Aristotle
Greek Philosopher
Friendship is essentially a partnership.
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
American President
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Kathryn Stockett
Kathryn Stockett
Novelist
Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don't know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly coming over to push the Think buttons.
My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
E. B. White
E. B. White
Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved Classics
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
Reba McEntire
Reba McEntire
American country music singer, actress and businesswoman
My mama is my best friend. We have fun, we can talk about anything, she always is on my side but really quick to tell me when I'm wrong. That's a true friend. She's loyal, smart, witty and intelligent. She loves family and loves to travel. All the things I love!
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
English Writer
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Aristotle
Aristotle
Greek Philosopher
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French Philosopher
Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Kathryn Stockett
Kathryn Stockett
Novelist
Why don't we just build you an house outside Hilly?
E. B. White
E. B. White
Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved Classics
Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
Aristotle
Aristotle
Greek Philosopher
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.
Kathryn Stockett
Kathryn Stockett
Novelist
She hug me around my neck, say, "You're righter than Miss Taylor." I tear up then. My cup is spilling over. Those is new words to me.