120+ Valentine Friendship Quotes for Best Friends and Close Friends
Valentine friendship quotes can help you find words for a close friend. Valentine’s Day can celebrate friendship as well as romance. Use these lines in cards, captions, texts, or WhatsApp status.
Each quote links to an archive, original text, or established literary collection. Disputed and misleading attributions were removed during the final audit.
Valentine friendship quotes for your best friend
A best friend often knows your history and stays close. Choose a line about trust, loyalty, or deep affection.
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My life is sweeter for thy life’s sweet grace
- Sophie Jewett A Friendship -
And better friends I’ll not be knowing
- Edna St. Vincent Millay Travel -
a voice for all seasons saying, I know you.
- Freya Manfred Old Friends -
O golden host I count upon the ends of one bare hand
- Countee Cullen To My Friends -
In the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Laelius: On Friendship -
I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.
- Nelson Mandela Unpublished autobiographical manuscript written in prison -
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series, “Friendship” -
Because it was he, because it was I.
- Michel de Montaigne Essays, “Of Friendship,” trans. Charles Cotton -
Friends are true Twins in Soul;
- William Penn Some Fruits of Solitude -
For thou art all that I can prize, / My joy, my life, my rest.
- Katherine Philips To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship -
We were not children together but we are now.
- Dean Young Dear Friend
Short Valentine quotes for friends and WhatsApp status
Short quotes leave room for your own Valentine message. They work well in cards, captions, texts, and status updates.
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Friendship needs no words
- Dag Hammarskjöld Waymarks -
Why can’t we be friends?
- Louisa May Alcott Work: A Story of Experience -
A true Friend is the best Possession.
- Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard, 1744 -
Permit me to offer you my friendship.
- Walt Whitman Letter to William D. Rossetti, 3 Dec. 1867 -
Friendship is Love without his wings!
- Lord Byron L’Amitié est L’Amour sans Ailes -
A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender.
- Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers -
A new friend is always a miracle
- Henry Adams The Education of Henry Adams -
my sweet friend!
- William Wordsworth Travelling -
And let your best be for your friend.
- Kahlil Gibran The Prophet, “On Friendship” -
We’ve kept the faith.
- Lucian B. Watkins To Our Friends
Valentine quotes about love between friends
Friendship can carry deep love without becoming romantic. These lines express warmth, care, and lasting affection.
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’Tis to love, as I love you.
- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea Friendship between Ephelia and Ardelia -
’Tis to share all joy and grief;
- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea Friendship between Ephelia and Ardelia -
Friendship the unison of well-turned hearts
- Katherine Philips To Mr. Henry Lawes -
There’s a Religion in our Love.
- Katherine Philips Friendship’s Mystery, To my Dearest Lucasia -
from your loving friend and comrade
- Walt Whitman Letter to Byron Sutherland, 15 Oct. 1865 -
Our Hearts are mutual Victims laid
- Katherine Philips Friendship’s Mystery, To my Dearest Lucasia -
I go with friends I love among these beds.
- William Brooks My Garden with Walls -
And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
- Kahlil Gibran The Prophet, “On Friendship” -
So do my thoughts enter yours.
- Maxwell Bodenheim Friendship -
Will you swear to be my friend forever and ever?
- L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables -
The hearts thus intermixed speak / A Love that no bold shock can break.
- Katherine Philips Friendship in Emblem, or the Seal, to my dearest Lucasia
Valentine quotes for friends who feel like family
Some friends become part of your life like family. Choose a line about belonging, closeness, or shared loyalty.
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One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.
- George Santayana Soliloquies in England -
A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother.
- Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard Improved, 1752 -
I solemnly swear to be faithful to my bosom friend, Diana Barry
- L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables -
I’ve all the world in thee.
- Katherine Philips To My Excellent Lucasia, on Our Friendship -
True friends are the whole world to one another;
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they mix and work themselves into one piece
- Michel de Montaigne Essays, “Of Friendship,” trans. Charles Cotton -
as if one soul were put into several bodies.
- Plutarch Selected Essays, “Fawner and Friend” -
And he is your board and your fireside.
- Kahlil Gibran The Prophet, “On Friendship” -
No man is useless while he has a friend.
- Robert Louis Stevenson Lay Morals -
Friends are born, not made
- Henry Adams The Education of Henry Adams
Long-distance Valentine friendship quotes
Distance can change routines without ending a strong friendship. Send one when someone far away still feels close.
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Nor press of crowd, nor waste of distance serves / To part us.
- Sophie Jewett A Friendship -
So do my thoughts meet the wind-scattered color of you.
- Maxwell Bodenheim Friendship -
Best love & remembrance to you, dear friend
- Walt Whitman Letter to Anne Gilchrist, 8 Feb. 1872 -
I send love to all my old friends there, too.
- Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) Letter to Orion and Mary E. Clemens, 10 June 1874 -
Distance has in itself no direct effect upon friendship, but only prevents the acting it out.
- Aristotle The Blessings of Friendship -
My friend, I need thee in good days or ill
- Sophie Jewett Absent -
For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence
- Kahlil Gibran The Prophet, “On Friendship” -
We shall all of us remember you always with more affection
- Walt Whitman Letter to Sarah Tyndale, 1857 -
Although you lose each others Eyes, / You’l faster keep the Heart.
- Katherine Philips Parting with a Friend -
Your letter of July 8 has reached me, & is comforting, as always.
- Walt Whitman Letter to Anne Gilchrist, 27 July 1875
Valentine friendship quotes about loyalty and trust
Trust grows through time, honesty, and steady actions. These lines suit friends who have truly earned your trust.
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True friendship is a plant of slow growth
- George Washington Letter to George Washington Parke Custis, 28 Nov. 1796 -
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few
- George Washington Letter to Bushrod Washington, 15 Jan. 1783 -
The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series, “Friendship” -
I can trust you forever.
- Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers -
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
- Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard’s Almanack -
My friends: if you are true, I needs must be.
- Countee Cullen To My Friends -
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, / Grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel.
- William Shakespeare Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3 -
A false Friend and a Shadow, attend only while the Sun shines.
- Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard Improved, 1756 -
The false but dies, ’t is not the true.
- Paul Laurence Dunbar After the Quarrel -
Friendship cannot live with Ceremony, nor without Civility.
- Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard Improved, 1754 -
Friendship is quite as much called upon to praise in season as it is to blame.
- Plutarch Selected Essays, “Fawner and Friend”
Valentine quotes for friends who are always there
Some friends make difficult days easier by showing up. Choose one for someone who brings comfort or courage.
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Such friendship enhances prosperity, and relieves adversity of its burden by halving and sharing it.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Laelius: On Friendship -
It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels us in all extremities.
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Do not desert him in adversity
- Seneca On Benefits -
Where friend and flower do speak alike to me, / Sometimes with silences, sometimes with words.
- William Brooks My Garden with Walls -
Divided joyes are tedious found, / And griefs united easier grow
- Katherine Philips Friendship’s Mystery, To my Dearest Lucasia -
For we rejoice in the joy of our friends as much as we do in our own.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero The Academic Questions -
To have friends is more necessary in adversity.
- Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics, Book IX -
A true Friend unbosomes freely, advises justly, assists readily…
- William Penn Some Fruits of Solitude -
For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.
- Kahlil Gibran The Prophet, “On Friendship” -
I love you devotedly, Anne, and I always will
- L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables -
Life’s a wilderness without a friend, and all its gilded scenes but barren and tasteless.
- Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard maxims
Lighthearted Valentine quotes for close friends
Not every Valentine message needs serious or sentimental words. These lines fit laughter, relaxed visits, and playful moments.
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all we have to do is make tacos tonight and be friends
- Matthew Rohrer Poem for Friends -
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
- Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray -
Ours is friendship at first sight, ain’t it?
- Herman Melville The Confidence-Man -
It will be jolly to have somebody to play with.
- L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables -
I go up to the stone wall / For a friendly visit.
- Robert Frost A Time to Talk -
I talk with you of foolish things and wise
- Sophie Jewett Entre Nous -
What matter? ’tis pleasant to you, friend, and me.
- William Makepeace Thackeray The Cane-Bottom’d Chair -
Tonight, grave sir, both my poor house, and I / Do equally desire your company;
- Ben Jonson Inviting a Friend to Supper -
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
- Kahlil Gibran The Prophet, “On Friendship” -
Be friendly. It will help make you happy.
- Ron Padgett How to Be Perfect
Valentine quotes for old friends and shared memories
Old friends carry years of memories, changes, and familiar jokes. These lines celebrate friendships that have lasted through time.
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Old friends are a steady spring rain
- Freya Manfred Old Friends -
We two have had such happy hours together
- William Wordsworth Travelling -
We have been friends together, / In sunshine and in shade;
- Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton We Have Been Friends Together -
There is no friend like the old friend, who has shared our morning days
- Oliver Wendell Holmes No Time Like the Old Time -
But think about old friends the most:
- W. B. Yeats The Lover Pleads with His Friend for Old Friends -
Here we talk of old books, and old friends, and old times;
- William Makepeace Thackeray The Cane-Bottom’d Chair -
I could sit with him and crack many a joke, / And talk of old times and the village folk;
- Mary Howitt The Old Friend and the New -
You've a manner all so mellow, / My old friend, / That it cheers and warms a fellow,
- James Whitcomb Riley My Old Friend -
I cried aloud the things we did / So long ago
- Mark Van Doren Communication -
There are no friends like our old friends
- Oliver Wendell Holmes No Time Like the Old Time -
Your smiles are still as tender, / My old friend,
- James Whitcomb Riley My Old Friend
Thank-you Valentine quotes for a good friend
Valentine’s Day is also a good time to thank a friend. Choose a line that shows appreciation for a valued friendship.
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My heart is warm with the friends I make
- Edna St. Vincent Millay Travel -
I cordially accept your appreciation, & reciprocate your friendship.
- Walt Whitman Letter to Charles Warren Stoddard, 12 June 1869 -
Farewell, my friend. I sincerely thank you
- Walt Whitman Letter to Charles Warren Stoddard, 12 June 1869 -
He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
- Kahlil Gibran The Prophet, “On Friendship” -
Thank you, dear friend, for your services & affectionate good will.
- Walt Whitman Letter to James Redpath, 12 Aug. 1885 -
I have long considered thy friendship as the greatest blessing of my life.
- Samuel Johnson Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia -
Thank you—thank you! for several kind remembrences of you
- Robert Pearsall Smith Letter to Walt Whitman, 13 Oct. 1889 -
Happy is the house that shelters a friend!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Essays: First Series, “Friendship” -
Love to them, & to you, dear friend.
- Walt Whitman Letter to Anne Gilchrist, 27 July 1875 -
Most heartily do I thank you, dear friend, for your kind exertions
- Walt Whitman Letter to Moses Lane, 11 May 1863 -
I thank you, kind and best beloved friend,
- Henry Timrod Sonnet: I Thank You
Classic friendship quotes from letters, poems, plays and essays
Classic writers often gave friendship sharp and memorable language. These lines come from identifiable works, letters, and records.
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The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
- William Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell -
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
- Woodrow Wilson Red Cross Fund address, 18 May 1918 -
The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.
- Henry David Thoreau A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers -
Of all felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship.
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A friend therefore is a sort of paradox in nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Friendship, Essays: First Series -
Friendship embraces innumerable advantages.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero Laelius: On Friendship -
Friends are the true Sceptres of Princes.
- Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard Improved, 1754 -
And friendship in its essence is spiritual.
- Hugh Black Friendship -
A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart…
- Francis Bacon Essays, “Of Friendship” -
The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer.
- Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard, 1744 -
There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom.
- William Penn Some Fruits of Solitude -
Friendship, indeed, was written, not in words
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We have discovered that somehow we are rested, and inspired, by a certain companionship
- Hugh Black Friendship -
Friends are, after all, thought to be the greatest of external goods.
- Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics -
Though friendships differ endless in degree
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge Fragment 10: The Three Sorts of Friends
How to use a friendship quote in a Valentine message
Choose a quote that sounds like the friendship you share. Add one personal sentence before or after the quotation. A shared memory can make the message feel more personal.
For a best friend, write, “You make ordinary days better.” Then add the quote that fits your friendship. Keep the author name when you share an attributed quote publicly.
