Friendship Quotes

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

– Walter Winchell

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

– Charles Peguy

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

– Anais Nin

Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

– Henry David Thoreau

Friends, companions, lovers, are those who treat us in terms of our unlimited worth to ourselves. They are closest to us who best understand what life means to us, who feel for us as we feel for ourselves, who are bound to us in triumph and disaster, who break the spell of our loneliness.

– Henry Alonzo Myers

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

– Mark Twain

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

– Pietro Aretino

I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration.

– Helen Keller

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.

– Helen Keller

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

– Sydney Smith

Share your smile with the world. It’s a symbol of friendship and peace.

– Christie Brinkley

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.

– Hasidic proverb

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

– Sicilian proverb

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.

– Mark Twain

There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be penned up in straight and narrow enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, ’twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small acknowledgements.

Friends are true twins in soul; they sympathise in everything, and have the same love and aversion.

One is not happy without the other, nor can either of them be miserable alone. As if they could change bodies, they take in turns in pain as well as in pleasure; relieving one another in their most adverse conditions.

– William Penn

There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

– Hillaire Belloc

Whatever you are it is your own friends who make your world.

– William James

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

– Katherine Mansfield