Short Friendship Quotes
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Suspicion kills friendship.
Cultivate the friendship of the good.
Trust is essential to friendship.
Friendship with the upright is advantageous.
Friendship is not an obsolete sentiment.
Friendship is the ideal, friends are the reality.
Friendship is the sanctuary of the heart.
Friendship, however, is a plant which cannot be forced.
Some men have a genius for friendship.
Friendship with the sincere is advantageous.
The culture of friendship is a duty.
Yes. We will be friends.
Friendship is rarer than love and more enduring.
Friendship builds itself up.
Friendship is a very real and close thing.
Friendship is the great chain of human society.
Friendship is the greatest bond in the world.
Friendship’s the image of Eternity.
Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.
Friends are each other’s mirrors.
Let’s be friends.
Nature abhors isolation.
Friendship is nourished by communication.
No friendship is an accident.
The flower of friendship grows.
We all want friends at times.
Life should be fortified by many friendships.
Friendship is the marriage of the soul.
Funny and Witty Friendship Quotes
Friendship is not serious all the time. This group leans into teasing, irony, and the odd truth good friends can laugh about.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
What’s the good of friends?
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.
I should expect my devoted friend to be devoted to me, of course.
He makes no friend who never made a foe.
I dare say that if I knew him I should not be his friend at all.
’T is the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense and to have her nonsense respected.
Friendship, like credit, is highest where it is not used.
Save, save, oh! save me from the Candid Friend!
I call the man a perfect Christian that can always forgive his friends.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
What is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?
It’s bad enough to have red hair myself, but I positively couldn’t endure it in a bosom friend.
It got hotter and hotter, and broke up all the friendships for three hundred yards around.
Love is all very well in its way, but friendship is much higher.
I call him dear partly because he’s head of the House, and therefore, of course, we respect and admire him.
A friend should be like money tried before being required.
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.
Meaningful Friendship Quotes
Some friendships are easier to feel than explain. These lines focus on closeness, trust, affection, and the value of being truly known.
When he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart.
They whose motive is utility have no Friendship for one another really.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
The very best thing in good talk, and the thing that helps it most, is friendship.
In the dew of little things the heart finds its morning.
A desire for Friendship may arise quickly but not Friendship itself.
He is your field which you sow with love.
There is a deep beauty, more so than the world will acknowledge, in this impassioned first friendship.
It is quietness pervaded with friendship.
Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
All thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared.
Who can love one whom he fears?
There can be no pleasure to me without communication.
The friend is best pleased with loving and being beloved by many.
The Friendship of the good is alone superior to calumny.
And to think that her friend loved her in return brought a sensation of deep happiness, not unmixed with gratitude.
I have never thought of you, but as a friend.
Those that want friends, to open themselves unto, are cannibals of their own hearts.
Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.
If there is any change in my affection for you it is that I love you more than ever, not less.
It seems to me that all people who have loving, pitying hearts, are not strangers to each other.
Friendship is no respecter of sex.
There is an exchange of thought and feeling which is happy alike in speech and in silence.
There is possible to-day, as ever, a generous friendship which forgets self.
A friendship that makes the least noise is often the most useful.
When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the ‘nay’ in your own mind.
Till then I want a friend, and I will find one if I can.
It is not friendship that follows material advantage, but material advantage friendship.
Great and even fatal errors could not destroy my friendship for one in whom I am sure of the kernel of nobleness.
Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship!
A unique and particular friendship dissolves all other obligations whatsoever.
O Friendship, flavor of flowers! O lively sprite of life!
I know of nothing in the world that is either nobler or rarer than a devoted friendship.
O summer friendship, whose flattering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity.
Freedom of speech is the peculiar and natural voice of friendship.
Our intellectual and active powers increase with our affection.
We held the league of heart to heart the only purpose of the earth.
We are different with different friends.
Friendship above all ties does bind the heart.
A friend is he that loves, and he that is beloved.
A friendship that like love is warm, a love like friendship steady.
A friend is he who sets his heart upon us.
It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
A pure friendship inspires, cleanses, expands, and strengthens the soul.
Best Friend Quotes
A best friend often knows the version of you others never see. Pick one of these lines for the person you trust most.
A bosom friend, an intimate friend, you know, a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.
Why can’t we be friends?
I solemnly swear to be faithful to my bosom friend, Diana Barry, as long as the sun and moon shall endure.
The friend does not take my word for anything, but he takes me.
I couldn’t love anybody as I love you.
I only want to feel that you like me a little and don’t mind my liking you a great deal.
I love you devotedly, Anne, and I always will, you may be sure of that.
I have as perfect a friendship for you as my imperfect nature can feel.
You find out how many friends you have.
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.
Somehow, little dream girls are not satisfying after a real friend.
Will you be my friend, and let me be yours?
I love you more than ever, and I’ve so many things to tell you.
I have confidence that this friendship can never be shaken.
The true friend must in some sense disregard all professions of friendship.
I could not live without the love of my friends.
I love you as much as ever. I miss you awfully to tell all my secrets to.
I respect, admire, and trust you more than ever, and feel proud to be your friend.
My friends have come to me unsought.
She is good; she is true; she is faithful, and I love her.
I dare say you could live without me, Sara; but I couldn’t live without you.
A friend is far more than himself.
He is a good, delightful creature, and I always feel better for being with him.
Friends are discovered, rather than made.
I love you very dearly because you are my friend.
A friend advises by his whole behavior.
There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends.
I will ever consider you my sincere and affectionate friend.
Will you swear to be my friend forever and ever?
You can never need a friend as much as I do, or know what a blessed thing it is to find such an one as you are.
You shall always find me a faithful, affectionate friend.
O what a thing is a true friend!
The friend is often pleasant, but always useful.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The secret of my friend is not mine to give.
The greatest medicine is a true friend.
True Friendship Quotes
Real friendship is more than liking someone. It grows through honesty, character, time, and mutual care.
True friendship is also a moral preservative.
True friendship appears to me to be something richer and more generous.
The perfect friendship is grounded on what is permanent, on goodness, on character.
To give and receive advice is peculiarly appropriate to genuine friendship.
The secret of friendship is just the secret of all spiritual blessing.
That then is perfect Friendship which subsists between those who are good.
Friendship is to be valued for what there is in it.
True friendship is no gourd, springing in a night and withering in a day.
The very first principle of friendship is that it is a mutual thing.
It is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends.
This golden friendship is not a common thing to be picked up in the street.
Friendship should be a little less unbending, more indulgent and gracious.
Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals.
Friendship seems to be the bond of Social Communities.
Affection was first a germ, then a sapling, then a strong tree.
Friendship is not friendship at the best till circumstances put it to the test.
A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the heart.
Friendship should be a great promise, a perennial springtime.
Friendship is one of the appointed means of saving the life from worldliness and selfishness.
Pure friendship is something which men of inferior intellect can never taste.
Friendship is Love, without either flowers or veil.
Friendship is Love without his wings!
Friendship is the best college character can graduate from.
The real limit to be observed in friendship is this: the characters of two friends must be stainless.
The perfect friendship I speak of is indivisible.
Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure.
Friendship is a severe sentiment, solidly seated.
Friendship requires praise as much as censure on the proper occasion.
To live in friendship is to have the same desires and the same aversions.
Friendship is a union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue.
Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love.
Friendship and Loyalty Quotes
Loyalty appears in what friends do, not only what they promise. These lines centre on trust, confidence, honesty, and dependability.
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.
Friendship requires a steady constant and unchangeable character.
Faithfully admonish your friend, and skillfully lead him on.
Friendship must live by faith and not by sight.
Amongst true friends there is no fear of losing anything.
The true friend always does what is right.
A man should keep his friendship in constant repair.
Friends require to be advised and reproved.
In regard to friends, to show them sincerity.
If a man have a true friend, he may rest almost secure.
Do believe in my love for you, and that it will remain as long as I have my senses.
Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
He trusts me as I trust myself.
No friendship can excuse a sin.
The true friend does not imitate you in everything.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere.
For promises of friendship are, like all others, useless and vain, unless they are made in some known sense, adjusted and acknowledged by both parties.
When friendship is settled, you must trust; before friendship is formed, you must pass judgment.
A true friend to a man is a friend to all his friends.
Old Friendship Quotes
Years add their own meaning to friendship. These quotes suit childhood friends, old companions, and people who remained close through change.
Yet I have not found that they change their friends, thank God.
Change, care, nor Time while life endure shall spoil our ancient friendship sure.
For believe me, in this world which is ever slipping from under our feet, it is the prerogative of friendship to grow old with one's friends.
Those are friendships which outlive a second generation.
Our long silence has never broken the affection for you that began when we were little ones.
The best mirror is an old friend.
Token of friendship true and tried, from one whose fiery heart of youth with mine has beaten, side by side.
Sudden friendships rarely live to ripeness.
The older the sweeter, as in wines that keep well.
Old friends, Peter?
Real friendship is a slow grower.
The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship.
We said what a fine thing friendship was, and how little we had guessed of it, and how it made life a new thing.
A friend may be often found and lost, but an old friend can never be found, and nature has provided that he cannot easily be lost.
After a certain age a new friend is a wonder.
Long-Distance Friendship Quotes
Miles can change routines without ending connection. These quotes fit friends who live far away or spend long periods apart.
The distance of place rendered the conjunction of our wills more rich.
Distance and time oppose no barrier.
The arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other.
Distance has in itself no direct effect upon Friendship.
Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters?
My friends are my ‘estate.’
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance.
Friends are around us, though no word be spoken.
Neither is it properly absence, when we can write to one another.
Friendship Through Hard Times
Difficult days often reveal the strength of a friendship. Use these lines for support, comfort, resilience, and friends who remain present.
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity.
It is by our friend’s conduct that we are continually rebuked and yet strengthened for a fresh endeavour.
True friendship is like sound health: the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
In the cause of friendship brave all dangers.
A true and faithful friend can the surest comfort lend.
Somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend.
All loving sympathy must express itself in acts of kindness.
Thanks for the sympathies that ye have shown!
Our sorrows and joys shall be common, so that we may rejoice in mutual prosperity and assist one another in adversity.
For friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and dividing of our grief.
Such friendship enhances prosperity, and relieves adversity of its burden by halving and sharing it.
One must certainly share adversity with him but not crime.
I would not be a useless friend.
To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.
Friends Who Feel Like Family
Some friendships grow so close that the word friend feels too small. These lines capture chosen family, kindred spirits, and a sense of home.
My friend is my real brother.
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think.
Friendship is the cement of two minds.
Man seeks friendship out of the desire to realize a home here.
It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.
Our souls had drawn so unanimously together.
Inspirational Friendship Quotes
Good friends can challenge you, steady you, and help you grow. These quotes focus on the positive influence friendship can bring.
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.
In friendship each will be nobler than the other.
I must feel pride in my friend’s accomplishments as if they were mine.
To the friend they say one should wish all good for his sake.
Words should pass between friends as the lightning passes from cloud to cloud.
Our own thought sounds new and larger from his mouth.
The goods of friends are common.
Be yourself and give your friend a chance to be himself.
We only need be as true to others as we are to ourselves.
What is Friendship? Something deep that the heart can spend and keep.
A constant friend is a thing rare and hard to find.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Nothing so characteristic of friends as the living with one another.
The finest friendships are between those who can do without each other.
The best receipt is the admonition of a friend.
A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting all the virtues from us.
Wealth that greatens while we give, praise that heartens us to live.
It is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.
I felt that your love made me strong to do it, and that, in time, I might grow good enough to be your friend.
Friends are the most valuable and beautiful furniture of life.
One must indeed assist one’s friend but not do anything wrong for him.
We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.
To cover the blemishes and to excuse the failings of a friend.
Fellowship is heaven, and lack of fellowship is hell.
Gratitude and Thank-You Friendship Quotes
Sometimes the message is simply thank you for being here. These quotes help express appreciation without turning into a long speech.
Thanks for each kindly word, each silent token.
Happy is the house that shelters a friend!
To find enjoyment in having many worthy friends is advantageous.
Heaven gives us friends to bless the present scene.
My friends have made the story of my life.
Ye have repaid me back a thousand-fold, by every friendly sign and salutation.
No material success in life is comparable to success in friendship.
Let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
I think I should make a very grateful friend if such an one was kind enough to like me.
Nothing is really more delightful than a return of affection.
When a man becomes dear to me I have touched the goal of fortune.
Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, the noble mind’s delight and pride.
I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good friends.
Classic Friendship Quotes from Literature
Friendship has filled letters, poems, plays, essays, and novels for centuries. This section gathers lines with a strong literary source behind them.
Friendship demands a religious treatment.
We were well fitted to be a mutual consolation to each other.
Before him I may think aloud.
He that wrongs his friend wrongs himself more.
No friend's a friend till he shall prove a friend.
Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Judge before friendship, then confide till death.
The friend is another himself.
Come, my friend, and let us prove life’s true talisman is love!
A man’s friend is not his property.
Here Catherine and Isabella, arm in arm, again tasted the sweets of friendship in an unreserved conversation.
Ours has severest virtue for its basis, and such a friendship ends not but with life.
Your friend is your needs answered.
Friendship bids us be indignant with those who speak against our friends.
The best gift of heaven, a friend.
A man’s friends are his magnetisms.
The assurance of your friendship, the intimacy to which you admit me, now, make the truest, deepest joy of my life.
A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.
Friendship Wisdom Quotes
Friendship also comes with choices about trust, listening, honesty, and space. These lines offer broader wisdom about keeping relationships strong.
The field where friends have met is consecrated forever.
A friend ought not to take the view of him which he takes of himself.
Because it was he, because it was I.
Where people are in Friendship Justice is not required.
Friendship with the man of much observation is advantageous.
I go away to cherish my idea of friendship.
Put yourself on a level with your friend.
We sought one another long before we met.
Defrauded friendship gets a few moments now and again, and is bidden to content itself.
Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.
Equality is said to be a tie of Friendship.
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
To conceal resentment against a person, and appear friendly with him, I also am ashamed of it.
It is the merit and preservation of friendship that it takes place on a level higher than the actual characters of the parties would seem to warrant.
It is not identity which is the aim and the glory of friendship, but unity in the midst of difference.
The intercourse between friends is varied and complex.
Nothing was so near to us as one another.
The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
The laws of friendship are austere and eternal.
Friendships are the purer and the more ardent, the nearer they come to the presence of God.
