Friendship Quotes

Friendship Quotes & Sayings

These friendship quotes and friendship sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. 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


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