Top 100 Long Friendship Quotes
#1. Sometimes people walk into plays by accident - they don't even know what they're looking at; they just think to give it a chance. That can be the beginning of a long friendship.
Dylan Baker
#2. Writers are a savage breed, Mr. Strike. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill. If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.
Robert Galbraith
#3. If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill.
If you want a lifetime of temporary alliances with peers who will glory in your every failure, write novels.
- Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)
The Silkworm
J.K. Rowling
#4. There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship
Lois Lowry
#5. If Reagan had intelligence information that showed that the upheaval in Egypt is actually Democratic in spirit, then he would have, I believe, turned his back on Mubarak, even though there's a long friendship between the United States and Egypt.
Douglas Brinkley
#6. A friend's loyalty lasts longer than their memory. Over the course of a long friendship, you might fight with your friend, even get angry with them. But a true friend will forget that anger after a while, because their loyalty to their friend outweighs the memory of the disagreement.
Matthew Reilly
#7. I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself ... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!
Jessye Norman
#8. I haven't been around here for long. Well ... actually, I haven't been around anywhere for long. I don't know who I am, or what I'm here for. I know that Lord Umber's important, though. I've seen all the good things he's done. I know for sure the world needs him. I can't say that about me.
P.W. Catanese
#9. But friendship meant you at least planted the seed for them, love meant allowing them the ability to weed their own garden until it was something healthy and thriving, blooming and bright and smelling of heather and tiger lilies.
Shannon Noelle Long
#10. Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.
Vera Nazarian
#11. Sometimes people would feign friendship for as long as it suited them. However resentment built, like dry kindling, stacked around a fire - waiting for the spark to ignite it.
Martyn Stanley
#13. Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
Jean De La Bruyere
#14. Whenever any of these new writers come up who are brilliant, I always realize that you have more talent and more skill than any of them;---but circumstances have prevented you from realizing upon the fact for a long time. [About F. Scott Fitzgerald]
Maxwell Perkins
#15. Every once in a while your world stands still ... There are certain friendships that are so important they leave a mark on you long after the person is gone.
Art Buchwald
#16. That kiss was amazing; it had all the passion and longing we had been holding onto for so long. That is when the dam finally broke for me and I started crying. I knew right then that Hunter was the only one I wanted. He was my happily ever after.
Megan Smith
#18. Hatred or disliking for someone is something that doesn't come easily but once it comes, it make sure not to leave your heart and mind and stay there either for ever or a long time.
Shivam Singh
#19. A strong friendship doesn't need daily conversation, doesn't always need togetherness, as long as the relationship lives in the heart, true friends will never part.
Auliq Ice
#20. I'll be back 'round again, yes, I'll walk in time with you, old friend. And we'll find that place that we had danced in so long ago.
Dave Matthews
#21. Friendship is not so simple. It is hard to get and takes a long time, but when one ha it one cannot get rid of it, one has to face it.
Albert Camus
#22. It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like What about lunch?
A.A. Milne
#23. I won't do anything Sara; this is not me trying to get into your pants, or to rekindle what we had. This is just me concerned over a friend I know for a long time and don't want to lose to a crazed lunatic.
Nicole Kiefer
#24. You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours.
Benjamin Franklin
#25. Every so often they exchanged these quick, knowing glances, each making sure the other one was still there, still with her. I wondered how long their friendship would last, and I felt sorry for them, because they didn't know it wouldn't.
Leah Stewart
#26. One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
H.L. Mencken
#27. You're never really done for, as long as you've got a good story and someone to tell it to.
Alessandro Baricco
#28. We started college having 18 years old young, naive spirit and we left as grown ups, men and women with life long friendships,life partners, it made us who we are whether we like it or not.
Anonymous Young Girl
#29. The corner doesn't mind listening to the stupid things I say;
Sometimes it's the only one keeping me from running away.
And the corner never tells me things I'd rather never know;
We became the best of friends long, long, long ago.
Margo T. Rose
#30. I'm not sure why that story came back to me while I sat huddled in Sydney's car on the way to the lake. It happened so long ago. I guess maybe it was because it gave me the assurance that when things got bad, there were certain people you could always count on.
D.J. MacHale
#31. My idea of socialism is no state monopoly. There should be stress on the subjectivity of the human being. You need good material conditions, a high level of culture, much freedom and friendship. And it won't come today or tomorrow. It's a long and winding road
Marek Edelman
#32. You have some queer friends, Dorothy,' she said.
The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends,' was the answer
L. Frank Baum
#33. Nothing bonds two solitary individuals like a good shared drunk. This is a scientific fact. It's important, even necessary for the long-term welfare of the planet to get good and shit-faced with your neighbor every now and then.
Sol Luckman
#34. Pam wasn't what Gloria would have called a friend, just someone she had known for so long that she had given up trying to get rid of her.
Kate Atkinson
#35. The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed.
Anna Garlin Spencer
#36. Sometimes, Dan, friends have to take a stand and say:
Hey, idiot, we're here for you no matter what. We're not
going to disappear when you get grumpy or angry, we're in
this for the long haul. We're in this for each other.
Madeleine Roux
#38. As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.
Henry David Thoreau
#39. And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love.
Lisa Kleypas
#40. I loved him like I loved walking through summer grass barefoot, like I loved a warm mug in my palms, like I loved driving on a long road as the sun sets in the distance. It was a good, safe, simple sort of friendship - well, at first, anyway.
Matthew Quick
#41. No matter what the genre, I want to see me and my friends. I want to see reality. I want to see what we're really like. I loved Bridesmaids. I thought it was the most honest portrayal of female friendship in such a long time.
Drew Barrymore
#42. Where are you from? New York?"
"Weird you picked up on that," she said, "I've been gone from there for so long."
Like a couple of decades could dilute that accent.
Cathie Beck
#43. If you would feel comfortable going around to someone's house at the end of a long day saying, "I'm just going to take my bra off," you know you are intimate friends.
Caitlin Moran
#44. To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. I hope the series shows how important friendship is.
Jeremy Brett
#45. I watch the confusion of friends all numb with love moving like stray dogs to the anthem of night long conversations of pulsing rhythms and random voltage voices in spite of themselves graceful as these raindrops creeping spermlike across the car window.
Bruce Cockburn
#46. Our friendship is made of bendy straws, long midnight letters,
my so-called life marathons, sleepless sleepovers, diner milk shakes, apron strings, a belief in beauty,
sucking helium, and the most trust I've ever felt for anyone, including myself.
David Levithan
#47. Growing apart doesn't change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I'm glad for that.
Ally Condie
#48. It took me a long time to discover your weakness, Albus Potter. I thought it was pride, I thought it was the need to impress your father, but then I realised your weakness was the same as your father's - friendship.
J.K. Rowling
#49. Whoever is present in your spring would more than likely have respected your winter.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#50. My mum and I have an incredible friendship now after a mixture of pain, honesty, unconditional love and a long break from each other
Pink
#51. The sacrifices of friendship were beautiful in her eyes as long as she was not asked to make them.
Hector Hugh Munro
#52. Cause they say home is where your heart is set in stone, it's where you go when're you're alone, its were you go to rest your bones. It's not just where you lay your head, it's not just where you make your bead. As long as we're together does it matter where we go?
Gabrielle Aplin
#53. You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
Ivan Turgenev
#54. Though our paths may have diverged, you must continue to live out your life with all your might, you must never consider your own life to be something insignificant, and you must never forget about your friends for as long as you live.
Hiro Mashima
#55. I'll be your friend so long as you're not crap
Colin Firth
#56. All his reckless, whimsical, sensual testing of the world throughout the years had been a search for what he knew with her. Passion and peace. Laughter and combat and friendship. God, but he loved her. It was an immensely humbling, enormous, radiant thing.
Julie Anne Long
#58. Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without jealousies or fears, and without those feverish fits of heat and cold, which cause such an agreeable torment in the amorous passion.
David Hume
#59. What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather?
Charles Dickens
#60. It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it ...
Nicole Richie
#61. Friendship was witnessing another's slow drip of miseries, and long bouts of boredom, and occasional triumphs. It was feeling honored by the privilege of getting to be present for another person's most dismal moments, and knowing that you could be dismal around him in return.
Hanya Yanagihara
#62. We're about to hit that age when we'll be too exhausted to maintain friendships, and the days of hanging out will be long behind us.
Gume Laurel III
#63. There is little to be said in favour of poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor
Nelson Mandela
#64. Parental care, satisfaction, friendship, compassion, and grief didn't just suddenly appear with the emergence of modern humans. All began their journey in pre-human beings. Our brain's provenance is inseparable from other species' brains in the long cauldron of living time. And thus, so is our mind.
Carl Safina
#65. Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old.
D.E. Stevenson
#66. Suffice it to say Cherie Snodgrass and I were good friends a long, long time ago. After Mr Snodgrass confronted my wife, the friendship ended and my marriage remained intact.
Henry Hyde
#67. Could he truly pretend that he wanted to be her friend? A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time, and had never got anywhere.
Joe Abercrombie
#68. As long as there are memories, yesterday remains. As long as there is hope, tomorrow awaits. As long as there is friendship, today is beautiful.
Billy Joel
#69. Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.
Samuel Johnson
#70. As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never
learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find
compassion.
Pema Chodron
#71. Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
Gertrude Stein
#72. No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
George Eliot
#73. Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time?
Rachel Cohn
#74. Paranoia is acceptable in the new friendship paradigm. Worrying that your best employees or customers might leave is ok, as long as you put in place an active strategy to offset any possibility of that scenario.
Kevin Kelly
#75. They sealed this promise by hooking pinkies, the way they used to, long ago, when promises didn't hurt as much.
Alice Hoffman
#77. A friend of mine once told me a month is about how long it takes to begin seeing another person as another person instead of a character making a cameo appearance in your life
Katie Heaney
#78. to eat and drink in moderation, and to curb one's sexual appetites. In the long run, a deep friendship will make us more content than a frenzied orgy.
Yuval Noah Harari
#79. Friends?" He asked me offering his right hand.
"As long as you don't touch my pencils' box again,
Tionne Rogers
#80. Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus. It brought me Tears, and I remembered how often together We ran the sun down with talk ... somewhere You've long been dust, my Halicarnassian friend. But your Nightingales live on. Though the Death world Claws at everything, it will not touch them.
Callimachus
#81. We follow our scripts like actors in a very large, very long production. And even with no audience, none of us gives a hint that it isn't real.
Ann Brashares
#82. When the night has come and the land is dark and the moon is the only light we see. No, I won't be afraid, no, I won't be afraid, just as long as you stand, stand by me.
Ben E. King
#83. It is hard to believe long together that anything is "worth while," unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind.
George Eliot
#84. We've been together so long, I hope it just wasn't the drugs.
Joan Osborne
#85. Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#86. If you'll be my body guard, I can be your long lost pal.
Paul Simon
#87. I would sooner want a strong partnership with the United States - even with (US President George W.) Bush, who I think is the worst president in a long, long time. I would sooner want a friendship with Bush than with (Russian President Vladimir) Putin.
Bernard-Henri Levy
#88. No peace and security among mankind - let alone common friendship - can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.
John Locke
#89. Love isn't about saying cute things and being praised all the time. It's right after a long argument that drains the life out of both of you, and getting
over it the next day.
Auliq Ice
#90. China-Africa relationship has a long history and is full of vitality. Since the 1950s and 1960s, our common historical experiences have brought China and Africa together, and we have forged deep friendship in our joint struggle during which we have supported each other in times of difficulty.
Li Keqiang
#91. Well, that's splendid!" Mr. Goat said. "As long as we preserve our friendship - that's the important thing." "Yes!" Olivia said. "Exactly!" There was a pause. "Can I kiss you?" Mr. Goat said. Olivia groaned. "I just want to be friends," she said firmly. "That's all." "I
Simon Rich
#92. A friend is one who withholds judgment no matter how long you have his unanswered letter.
Sophie Irene Loeb
#93. Harriet had long ago discovered that one could not like people any the better, merely because they were ill, or dead - still less because one had once liked them very much.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#94. A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.
Joe Abercrombie
#95. It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
John Leonard
#96. Treasure the friendship you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.
Og Mandino
#97. If the sky that we look upon should tumble and fall. Or the mountain should crumble to the sea. I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear, just as long as you stand by me.
Ben E. King
#98. What if you're chicken? What if you're more chicken than chicken soup?" Malloy said.
Kit gave him a long, hard look. "Then you pretend you're not. You pretend so hard it comes true.
Tania Unsworth
#99. I know that the arms of friendship are long enough to reach from the one end of the world to the other
Michel De Montaigne
#100. If your policy is win at all costs then you are going to hurt people
Darrell Waltrip
