#Friendship Quotes

“Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.”

“So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends.”

“I am wealthy in my friends.”

“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.”

“Friendship is full of dregs.”

“Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.”

“That which I would discoverThe law of friendship bids me to conceal.”

“Be to yourself as you would to your friend.”

“We are advertis'd by our loving friends.”

“There is flattery in friendship.”

“This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.”

“Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me; Is't not enough to torture me alone, But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?”

“My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love.”

“The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!”

“If thou wilt lend this money, lend it notAs to thy friends; for when did friendship takeA breed for barren metal of his friend?”

“I am not of that feather, to shake off my friend when he must need me”

“A noble shalt thou have, and present pay;And liquor likewise will I give to thee,And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood.”

“The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.”

“To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;But where there is true friendship, there needs none.”

“A pal is one that is aware you while you are, understands where you have already been, accepts whatever you are becoming, and continue to, carefully means that you can develop.”

“Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh-ho sing, heigh-ho unto the green holly Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Then heigh-ho the holly This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend rememberd not.”

“Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love.”

“Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.”

“Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.”

“Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his earA stranger to thy thoughts.”

“Only be admonished by what you already see, not to strike leagues of friendship with cheap persons, where no friendship can be. Our impatience betrays us into rash and foolish alliances which no God attends.”

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.”

“Thy friendship makes us fresh.”

“My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.”

“We seek our friend not sacredly, but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.”

“The only method to possess a buddy is always to be one.”

“Who would be so mocked with glory, or to liveBut in a dream of friendship,To have his pomp and all what state compoundsBut only painted, like his varnished friends?”

“Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.”

“Happy is the house that shelters a friend.”

“It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere”

“But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!”

“I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.”

“The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it”

“If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.”

“Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!)”

“But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.”

“It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.”

“A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.”

“But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.”

“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”

“Friendly counsel cuts off many foes.”

“We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.”

“Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.”

“I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.”

“When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.”