Friendship Quotes

Maintenance of good relations with the neighbours, friendship to all, malice to none is the policy I pursue throughout my life.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

But I think 'Love, Actually' has a very realistic view of human nature in line with the latest scientific evidence. The opening scene, where Hugh Grant's character talks about the arrivals gate at Heathrow, is about friendship and connection, it's about who we really are as a species.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

I usually give a book 40 pages. If it doesn't grab me by then, adios. With young adult books, you can usually tell by Page 4 if it's worth the time. The author establishes the conflict early, sometimes in the first sentence. The themes of hope, family, friendship and overcoming hardship appeal to most everyone.

Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities - good and bad.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Never was a man further from a partiality for Spain than I am. But I think I now have left them in a sincere and steady intention to cultivate the friendship of America.

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.

What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.