Top 600 Friendship Quotes

I don’t think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.
Joanna Lumley
I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.
Richard Lugar
Despite the pain of his death, George is still very much alive in my memory today. A few years on from that tragic Christmas, I’ll sometimes catch myself thinking of our friendship and those years together as young kids in Wham!
Andrew Ridgeley
I remember that Pu La had come for one of my premieres and I was patiently waiting to hear his verdict of my acting, but when he came out of the theatre during interval, all he asked me was about my father and his well being, such was their friendship.
Ashok Saraf
I find that when I’m in a relationship, I’m just so ‘in it,’ you couldn’t even call it an art; it’s such embroilment. With a friendship, you can choose a little bit more how to behave. You can be guided more.
Sheila Heti
Rick Rubin and my father had a great friendship and it’s because of it that the work my dad did at the end of his life was created – that he felt creativity and invigorated again, even though he was being consumed by frailty.
John Carter Cash
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never.
Charles Caleb Colton
No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth.
Robert Southey
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Whether it’s music, loss of something, loneliness or friendship – if that emotion is heightened in some way and painted to fit in between the covers of 32 pages, that can become a picture book.
Chris Raschka
There is no friendship in trade.
Cornelius Vanderbilt
My message to the people and rulers of Pakistan is, ‘As neighbours, we want peace and friendship and cooperation with you so that together we can change the face of South Asia.’
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Herman Melville
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Jane Austen
It’s kind of a weird thing when you’ve been at the top of a division you’ve been in your entire career to kind of take a backseat because of friendship.
Urijah Faber
Pak-China friendship is higher than Himalayas, deeper than ocean, sweeter than honey, and stronger than steel.
Shehbaz Sharif
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
Baltasar Gracian
I believe that friendship is life’s most precious and amazing gift and an incredibly powerful force.
Ananya Birla
I’m single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that’s me.
Joel Edgerton
I definitely have guys that I’m friends with that I have a crush on, and you don’t want to ruin the friendship.
Miranda Cosgrove
What’s quite nice about this whole folk movement is that it’s born out of genuine friendship. And nobody’s infringing on anybody’s space.
Johnny Flynn
The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.
Galina Vishnevskaya
I wanted to show platonic friendship between men and women, because I think it is underutilised in fiction.
Gail Honeyman
Nanda and I never discussed work. Our work never came in the way of our friendship. We were both down-to-earth and very Indian. Both of us attempted glamorous roles but soon realised that it’s better to play characters that were close to our personalities.
Waheeda Rehman
When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.
Sam Brownback
A friendship has to be cultivated. A friendship you have to give time.
Ruth Westheimer
One sure way to lose another woman’s friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.
Marcelene Cox
November 11, 1802, I arrived at Judge Patterson’s at Lisle. This respectable family treated me with every mark of distinction and friendship, and likewise all the people did the same. I really want for words to express my gratitude.
Deborah Sampson
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
Seneca
Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious – friendship and learning.
Jane Harrison
No doubt, the most important thing in my career was my time with Mr. Bergman, with whom I worked in so many films and also in so many stage productions, so it was a continuous working relationship and also a friendship, of course, that lasted for so many years.
Max von Sydow
If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
Thomas Fuller
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Henry Adams
Football is about sacrifice, dedication, a lot of work, and friendship off the pitch.
Edinson Cavani
I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and insightful, so I’m not going to diss them. But you don’t really have any guarantees that what you’re reading wasn’t written out of friendship or spite.
Michael Dirda
I think everyone is always so surprised to see the friendship that I have with The Vixen. We are very supportive of each other.
Aquaria
The biggest direct influence on my career is Ben Edlund, who gave me my first real professional break and, through his friendship and example, turned me into a writer and a more critical thinker in general.
Christopher McCulloch
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius
Our way is straight and clear – the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Watching John Lasseter’s films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he’s doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him.
Hayao Miyazaki
You know, real life doesn’t just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can’t just say, ‘She’s my best friend.’ That’s not a given, it’s a process.
Viggo Mortensen
I cannot thank Don DeDonatis enough for his leadership of USSSA, his stewardship of our business initiatives, and his friendship to me over the years.
Robert Parish
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee
Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
Martin Freeman
I force people to have coffee with me, just because I d

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.
John Cusack
You find out who your real friends are when you’re involved in a scandal.
Elizabeth Taylor
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
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
Aristotle
Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard
The enemies cannot destroy the king who has at his service the respect and friendship of the wise men who can find fault, disagree, and correct him.
Thiruvalluvar
I really enjoy writing about female friendship. It’s an endlessly interesting dynamic for me.
Ruth Ware
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
George Jean Nathan
I met Adrienne Bailon a bit over two years ago, we worked together and became friends. Our circles connected and we remained good friends. From a friendship, as two single adults we have very recently begun to explore a dating relationship.
Israel Houghton
Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Anton Chekhov
I sacrificed a lot, in terms of friendship and family, from working so much at such a young age, but I wouldn’t be where I am if I hadn’t.
Sasha Grey
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Aristotle
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
King Solomon
I really think that technology has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world. The companies that will ultimately do well are the companies that chase happiness. If you find a way to help people find love, or health or friendship, the dollar will chase that.
Ashton Kutcher
I think for a lot of people, friendship is a relationship that gets devalued once they move on to what people consider to be more important relationships: once you find a partner or when you have kids.
Hanya Yanagihara
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
Hilaire Belloc
It’s always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people’s feelings.
Abby Wambach
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
Sallust
I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.
Emma Bunton
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely.
Pam Brown