Quotes about Friendship

“As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.”

“Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.”

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”

“My last public performance for money was in 1967. For free, it was 1972, with the exception of two little one-shot, one-song things. But that's just for friends, out of friendship for the people involved, and also because it was fun.”

“A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.”

“The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.”

“Whenever there is a new song out, we'll sometimes try to rehearse a celebration so when one of us scores a goal, we can celebrate it together. I find this a nice thing between team-mates to show the friendship between us, and I try to do this whenever I can.”

“I don't think it's more important to preserve female friendship than a marriage. But I think that there's a place for female friendship that's really important in the lives of all the women I know. As I've gotten older, it's become much more important to me.”

“I started to work when I was really young. For me, friendship is work, and work is friendship. Those who are next to me and that have been there for a long time are those who can work with me, play football with me, and go watch a film with me.”

“A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not.”

“But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.”

“Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.”

“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”

“I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.”

“Russia and China thawed their frosty relationship in the 1990s and signed a friendship treaty in 2001, but China's rise has increased tensions in every regional relationship.”

“The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.”

“Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.”

“Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.”

“I hear you younger people saying how many friends they have on the Internet. That's nonsense. That's not friends, that's acquaintances. The word 'friendship' has lost its significance.”

“Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.”

“The sincere friends of this world are as ship lights in the stormiest of nights.”