Friendship Quotes

Friendship is Love without wings. (Lord Byron)
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. View quote
Seneca
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. View quote
Aristotle
Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures. View quote
Seneca
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love. View quote
Jane Austen
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. View quote
Anton Chekhov
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
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. View quote
Orson Welles
So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship will be sedulously cultivated with all nations. (John Tyler)
Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Friendship needs no wordsit is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. View quote
Colette
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. View quote
Samuel Richardson
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand. View quote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Friendship, I have said, is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself..." View quote
C. S. Lewis
Love demands infinitely less than friendship. (George Jean Nathan)
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. View quote
William Hazlitt
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded. View quote
Gertrude Stein
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith