Best Friend Quality Quotes

#1. There is a third quality to friendship, and it is not as easy to put into a single word. The right word, literally, is "sympathy" - sym-pathos, common passion. This means that friendships are discovered more than they are created at will.

Timothy Keller

#2. It is not what you give your friend, but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of friendship.

Mary Dixon Thayer

#3. An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any.

John Lyly

#4. I know of no one who has been more helpful to the industry. His teachings and consultations internationally, without doubt, improved the quality of winemaking in our country. He was a friend to everyone interested in fine wine.

Robert Mondavi

#5. A few caring kind quality friends are worth more than any amount of shallow popularity.

Rachel Hamilton

#6. The grave is a crucible where memory is purified; we only remember a dead friend by those qualities which make him regretted.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#7. I just want to work hard, do stuff of the best possible quality and be a great friend.

Suki Waterhouse

#8. There was a quality of loneliness to her that comes when your only friend walks away and you don't know why and there's no one else and never will be. A left-behind look.

Robert Crais

#9. I'm the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded. This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life.

Mindy Kaling

#10. People don't appreciate music any more. They don't adore it. They don't buy vinyl and just love it. They love their laptops like their best friend, but they don't love a record for its sound quality and its artwork.

Laura Marling

#11. I would rather have 1 amazing best friend than 100 decent regular friends. It's not about quantity, it's about quality.

Connor Franta

#12. When our friends are alive, we see the good qualities they lack; dead, we remember only those they possessed.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

#13. There is no better friendship booster than the ability to listen. The ability to show genuine interest in others is an admirable quality of a true friend.

Phil Callaway

#14. If life is going well, I watch quality things like period dramas and 'The Blue Planet.' But other times, I'll trawl through anything Freeview has to offer. I do believe TV can ruin your mind, but it can also be a really good friend.

Raquel Cassidy

#15. We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.

William James

#16. Anyone can have a friend, but the one that would walk in a storm to find you is all you will ever need.

Shannon L. Alder

#17. Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

Brooke Shields

#18. A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality.

William Dean Howells