Their Friendship Quotes

#1. What she most liked about their friendship was how much space there was for silence[.]

Naomi Jackson

#2. Their friendship was more important than any relationship. Guys would come and go; girlfriends were forever.

Kristin Hannah

#3. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

Ann Brashares

#4. sometimes I wondered if the whole point of their friendship was just to post these images, to prove to the world that they had a bunch of pretty friends.

Jennifer Close

#5. It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.

Ray Bradbury

#6. Their friendship is like a tapestry in a drawer. Today is the iron passing over the cloth, smoothing out the wrinkles, bring out the pattern that makes it unique and beautiful.

Nancy Thayer

#7. 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

#8. The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.

Phillips Brooks

#9. Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

Charles Caleb Colton

#10. Their friendship, remembered from the battle school days, gradually disappeared. It was to each other that they became close; it was with each other that they exchanged confidences.

Orson Scott Card

#11. this is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal

J.K. Rowling

#12. It was the perfect distraction for Cooper to ignore the flood of...contentment... Hearing that their friendship had meant to Noah even a portion of what it had meant to Coop. Which, as a kid, had been everything.

Riley Hart

#13. Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship.

Charles Caleb Colton

#14. My heart and my soul are best of friends.
And their friendship started
the day you and I first met.

Frederick Espiritu

#15. I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.

Joan Cusack

#16. If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

Marie De France

#17. I think that's the thing about friends who aren't quick to let others in.
When they do give you their friendship, it means something more.
Conner

Becca Ritchie

#18. Never indulge in people who follow a negative path because they will take you with them on the road of ruin. Show them the way to positivism even if there's a risk of losing their friendship.

Siddharth Katragadda

#19. The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity.

William Shakespeare

#20. Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead?

David Nicholls

#21. Every tattoo I got with them is a mark of their friendship, and almost every time I have laughed in this dark place was because of them. I don't want to lose them. But I feel like I have already.

Veronica Roth

#22. I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together.

Alison McGhee

#23. It is not a rare occurrence among intimate friends that their friendship is strengthened when one has displeased the other but has afterwards humbled himself and asked pardon.

Alfonso Maria De Liguori

#24. Both men accepted that the nature of the request, its intimacy and self-conscious reflection on their friendship, had created, for the moment, an uncomfortable emotional proximity which was best dealt with by their parting without another word.

Ian McEwan

#25. Throughout their friendship Deronda had been used to Hans' egotism, but he had never before felt intolerant of it: when Hans, habitually pouring out his own feelings and affairs, had never cared for any detail in return, and, if he chanced to know any, had soon forgotten it

George Eliot

#26. Tell someone a story, and you capture their imagination. Make someone laugh, and you capture their friendship. Bring a tear to their eye with poignant grace, and you capture their heart. But never, never attempt to capture someone's spirit. That is theirs, and theirs alone.

Pen

#27. You let their friendship continue because Maisie looks after your son while you're gallivanting around the country disguised as Sherlock Holmes - Uncle Paton Yewbeam

Jenny Nimmo

#28. In spite of their friendship, they were so far apart, the bowstring was so taut between them: a seeing man and a blind man, they walked side by side ; the blind man's unawareness of his own blindness was a consolation only to himself.

Hermann Hesse

#29. Anyone who wishes to learn to enjoy life must find friends of the same type of temperament, and take as much trouble to gain and keep their friendship as wives take to keep their husbands.

Lin Yutang

#30. Their friendship had made them so thankful for all they still had that they couldn't be sad for what they had lost.

Jeremy D. Shapiro

#31. Not everyone will support every mission or work, you can still enjoy their friendship. No one likes to feel that the only reason you are friends is what you can get out of them.

John Patrick Hickey

#32. It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.

Euripides

#33. I felt bolstered by their friendship. By their loyalty. By the idea that I had these amazing friends, these members of my tribe, these gladiators at my back.

Shonda Rhimes

#34. I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions,

Henry David Thoreau

#35. The literature of the Spanish Civil War is also important to me. Above all George Orwell's "Homage to Catalonia" as well as the writing of John Dos Passos and Ernest Hemingway. They worked on a film together in Spain during that war, which ended their friendship.

George Packer

#36. The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.

Mao Zedong

#37. Before I can effectively discipline students, I have to earn their friendship and respect.

Marva Collins

#38. Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.

Bill Bradley

#39. If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.

Luc De Clapiers

#40. These men, as she often muttered to friend Eleanor Topping, the two of them pressed together like sisters, their friendship filling in for the matrimonial gaps. These men, romantically isolated, secretly tortured, became like lighthouses flashing their treacherous shallows. Stay away! Stay away!

David Gilbert

#41. I do think in this film [Captain America] we try to tie together that their relationship has gotten stronger - that their friendship has gotten stronger from the last film, sure.

Elizabeth Olsen

#42. Exy had been a raw point between them since they'd met. It was the critical part of their friendship Andrew refused to acknowledge and Kevin couldn't fix, a dream Andrew wouldn't believe in and Kevin couldn't give up on.

Nora Sakavic

#43. Strong men serving together thrive in the strength their friendship provides.

James MacDonald

#44. Everyone depended upon the goodwill of others, on their skills or their patronage, their friendship or their protection. It was only that some forms of dependence were more obvious than others, not any more real.

Anne Perry

#45. In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.

Tony Garza

#46. Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

Dorothy Parker

#47. Every life contains the seed of death, he had explained to Tin Win repeatedly in those first years of their friendship. Death, like birth, was a part of life that no one could escape. It was senseless to resist it. Far better to accept it as natural than to fear it.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#48. Their hands slapped library door handles together, their chests broke track tapes together, their tennis shoes beat parallel pony tracks over lawns, trimmed bushes, squirreled trees, no one losing, both winning, thus saving their friendship for other times of loss.

Ray Bradbury

#49. Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.

Ming-Dao Deng

#50. And perhaps that was typical of a certain . . . imbalance in their friendship that had always been there and which Clive had been aware of somewhere in his heart and had always pushed away, disliking himself for unworthy thoughts. Until now.

Ian McEwan

#51. Their friendship sometimes struck Frances as being like a piece of soap-like a piece of ancient kitchen soap that had got worn to the shape of her hand, but which had been dropped to the floor so many times it was never quite free of its bits of cinder.

Sarah Waters

#52. It was early in their friendship, those days when they had to catch each other up on everything that had happened to them, so that they could mark their lives - Before. And After.

Melanie Benjamin

#53. More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses
it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#54. They all behaved as if they were absolutely disgusted by this, and amid the ribbing and hilarity that this elaborate performance of disgust and envy produced they were able to hide their true feelings of disgust and envy.

Jonathan Lynn

#55. Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones. Adm. Fitzwallace

Aaron Sorkin

#56. 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

#57. Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

Francis Bacon

#58. If two people are so unalike, as you and I, they are pleased when they discover points of agreement. But if they are as alike as Nietzsche and I, they suffer from their differences.

H.F. Peters

#59. Go on, have a pasty, said Harry, who had never had anything to share before or, indeed, anyone to share it with. It was a nice feeling, sitting there with Ron, eating their way through all Harry's pasties, cakes, and candies (the sandwiches lay forgotten).

J.K. Rowling

#60. These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason.

Margaret Mitchell

#61. He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that they puzzle themselves as well as their friends; that their psychology is a modern development, and has not yet been understood.

E. M. Forster

#62. Love isn't always a physical emotion. Sometimes it's the ones who never got to actually hold you in their arms that appreciate you for who you are

Sarah Sprague

#63. Keep extending hand for friendship. Those alive will grip yours with theirs, while the morally dead will inflate; rubbing their own palms.

Aniruddha Sastikar

#64. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and 'Extras' and also 'The Trip.' That had all the nuances of friendship and finding things out about their lives without it being too much plot-driven.

Dolly Wells

#65. But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.

Alicia Machado

#66. Friendship includes talking others off their ledges, and letting them talk you off yours. - Jenni Davenport

Gary Chapman

#67. If you're so far down the totem pole that someone considers it a favor to you just to have you in their circle (no matter how far outside the ring you are), you should probably cut them out of yours.

Michelle N. Onuorah

#68. And the prince who has relied solely on their words, without making other preparations, is ruined, for the friendship which is gained by purchase and not through grandeur and nobility of spirit is merited but is not secured, and at times is not to be had.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#69. Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies ... and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

William James

#70. Elli-" Neve lies down next to him. "It is not easy being friend with someone who has depression. Not because it's a burden, but because you love them. So their pain becomes your own." She rests her hand on his chest. "You really expect me to just sit by and do nothing ?

Nelou Keramati

#71. Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

Benjamin Disraeli

#72. We like people for their qualities, but we love them for their defects." In writing this line I meant to say that we must not simply "accept" imperfection when it is revealed to us - we must celebrate it. This, I assure you, is the true sign of friendship.

Ron Perlman

#73. What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#74. Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

Winston Churchill

#75. We should learn from flowers, earthly stars which spend their entire lives shining, shining and growing despite all the difficulties they encounter. They know how to listen and understand the whispers of time, for it is an eternal friend that teaches the importance of friendship and sparkling hope.

Nur Bedeir

#76. How empty are the insincere words of people who, so easily, speak forth "love," "family" and "friendship" without meaning what they say even if their intentions are good albeit mere flattery.

Donna Lynn Hope

#77. Adam searched out old friends from the neighborhood. They drank beer together in the garden of the Stag & Hounds, trading stories and trying their best to ignore the inescapable truth - that the ties that once bound them were loosening by the year and might soon be gone altogether.

Mark Mills

#78. There can never be deep peace between two spirits, never mutual respect, until, in their dialogue, each stands for the whole world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#79. So much has been said between them that is is needless to add a marginal note. It is not for him now to gloss the text of their dealings, nor append a moral.

Hilary Mantel

#80. The basis of love that most people share is the intimacy they developed with their partners, the intensity of their attraction, or the similarity of their thought patterns,

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#81. A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms around his neck.

David Nicholls

#82. Their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#83. Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#84. A friend drops their plans when you're in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you're in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice
but when you don't follow it, they still respect and love you.

Doris Wild Helmering

#85. Most often, their association was one of silence, but that is a thing of uncommon worth when partaken of in the ease of another.

A.S. Peterson

#86. People who have created their success through hard work and the support of others are always looking for ways to help those around them.
Don't be afraid to reach out.

Mensah Oteh

#87. I had rather that the human race, having a certain quality in their lives, should continue for only a few centuries than that, losing freedom, friendship, dignity, and mercy, and learning to be quite content without them, they should continue for millions of millennia.

C.S. Lewis

#88. Still not sure about how easily he could be integrated into their posse, Trevor smiled in delighted relief at how tolerantly two of his close friends had received his new identity.

Zack Love

#89. You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.

Jude Morgan

#90. Our success at friendship, business, sports, love
indeed, at nearly every enterprise we attempt
is largely determined by our self-image. People who have a confidence in their personal worth seem to be magnets for success and happiness.

Alan Loy McGinnis

#91. Don't judge people by their profession, otherwise you'll end up with more enemies than friends.

Abhijit Naskar

#92. A skilled listener can help people tap into their own wisdom.

Richard Rohr

#93. When you meet someone, and you find that they are prejudiced against your kind, it might be your chance, not to confirm, but to be the one to finally change their mind.

Criss Jami

#94. One of the few advantages of reaching my age is that I've seen it all. Learned not to judge anyone until I've walked in their shoes. That's why we all need friends, isn't it, to help us out with the weak spots? And sometimes the weak spots nobody can see are the ones that hurt the most.

Debbie Johnson

#95. True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success,

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#96. But [the Arabs'] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm these roving barbarians; and, in the familiar intercourse of war, they learned to see, and to despise, the splendid weakness both of Rome and of Persia.

Edward Gibbon

#97. I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never expose their quarrels on either side ... allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

Abraham Lincoln

#98. He thought of her often, and he missed the companionship they'd once shared and the friendship that had been the bedrock of their marriage at its best.

Nicholas Sparks

#99. Sometimes people are so genuinely themselves they aren't conscious of the fact they have wronged you; sometimes you shouldn't care enough to bring it to their attention.

J'son M. Lee

#100. He was able to love them again, but he loved them now in a wiser way, knowing their weakness.

William Steig