Friendship Quotes & Sayings

Friendship Quotes & Sayings

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



To become love, friendship needs what morality needs to become religion, the fire of emotion. - Louisa May Alcott



No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever. - Francois Mauriac



Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone, but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming. - William Hazlitt



To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. [Characteristics] - William Hazlitt



Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.



Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none. - Thomas Jefferson



There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man. - Edgar Allan Poe



One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton



What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honour among rogues. - Henry David Thoreau



True friendship brings sunshine to the shade, and shade to the sunshine. - Thomas A. Burke



Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion. [The Plain Dealer] - William Wycherley



The language of friendship is not words but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau



Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create. - Abraham Cowley



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