Quotes About Genuine Friendship

#1. What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

Arthur C. Clarke

#2. To my thinking, offence has no possible place in genuine friendship. The one pained always forestalls offence by the realization of non-intention to wound on the part of the other.

Florence L. Barclay

#3. The principle component in any genuine friendship is caring, not competition.

Charles F. Glassman

#4. I later realized that this is my view of passion: It is rooted in genuine friendship. Chemistry may be two strangers exchanging smoldering looks - but passion has to be able to survive at least a twenty-minute conversation!

Helen Simonson

#5. My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

Dalai Lama

#6. I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.

Jessye Norman

#7. That's unfortunate, I say, choosing my words carefully and realizing that this might be the hallmark of a genuine friendship: how freely you speak.

Emily Giffin

#8. Friendship is only friendship when it is real. Passionate and relentless. Forgiving and joyful. Don't forget today to have real moments with your friends. Not a text, or a tweet, an Instagram
that's all deceit. Hold real hands, kiss genuine lips, be a truly strong human force.

Lady Gaga

#9. We want the people around us to show us a satisfactory measure of genuine empathy, but no one has any idea what that looks like. This puts everyone in the precarious position of guaranteed failure. I know that no one knows how to deal with stuff like this. There are no experts here.

Russ Ramsey

#10. On the positive side, a strong sense of comradely loyalty triggers genuine affection and friendship. On the negative side, it may strengthen contempt for the lives of opponents and, of course, the loss of a comrade may be followed by even greater brutality in battle.

Nel Noddings

#11. Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

George Ebers

#12. Forgetting is woman's first and greatest art.

Richard Aldington

#13. Friendship is a sacred thing and I do not extend the word lightly. I've had long-term romances in my life but few genuine friendships. I am exceedingly picky about who I let in my inner circle and because of that I have a few friends and many acquaintances.

Donna Lynn Hope

#14. She may be a bitch, but she's a genuine bitch with a heart

Emily Henry

#15. There are little gems all around us that can hold glimmers of inspiration.

Richelle Mead

#16. There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.

Umberto Eco

#17. So I learned that even after a single day's experience of the outside world a man could easily live a hundred years in prison. He'd have laid up enough memories never to be bored. Obviously, in one way, this was a compensation.

Anonymous

#18. Back in the 1950s and '60s, J. M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan' - starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard - was regularly aired on network television during the Christmas season. I must have seen it four or five times and remember, in particular, Ritchard's gloriously camp interpretation of Captain Hook.

Michael Dirda

#19. True friendship develops not as a result of money or power but on the basis of genuine human affection.

Dalai Lama

#20. We never actually have serious conversations about anything for more than 20 seconds. So there's a beautiful superficiality to our relationship which sometimes gets covered up by all the genuine affection flowing back and forth.

Kamila Shamsie

#21. Sympathy is a nobler feeling than pity. But if sympathy is the principal reason that one person is drawn to another, there will always be an unbridgeable chasm between friendship and genuine love.

Dean Koontz

#22. At fifty-one, why would she choose to dispose of her house, uproot herself, and come here to be a part of your work if she didn't feel that, for the first time in her life, she was profoundly known for who she is, that she was at last cherished for who she truly is?

Dean Koontz

#23. You think you walk, Lucy? I think you fly. You see yourself in a uniform? I see you in a cape. You're a hero, of the quietest but most genuine nature.

Kiera Cass

#24. Those from whose pocket the salary is drawn, and by whose appointment the officer was made, have always a right to discuss the merits of their officers, and their modes of exercising the duties they are paid to perform.

Charles Babbage

#25. Every single human being is a unique human being. And, therefore, it's so criminal to do something to that human being, because he or she represents humanity.

Elie Wiesel

#26. Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops ... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?

Dalai Lama

#27. A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends

John Chrysostom

#28. Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

Austin O'Malley

#29. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

Marilyn Monroe

#30. 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

#31. I'd rather be befriended as an aimless lost soul than be befriended for adornment, gain or goal.

Donna Lynn Hope

#32. Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.

Crystal Woods

#33. Our friendship is made up of these brief frenzied exchanges, but the quality of our conversation, for all its feverish outpouring, is genuine.

Carol Shields

#34. I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.

Kurt Cobain