Top 478 Friendship Quotes

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

David Storey

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

Judy Holliday

I had more friends on my hockey team than I did on my soccer team. I might have been better at soccer, to be honest. But I think it was more the friendship, and my family was more of a hockey family than a soccer family, so when I had to make a decision, I tried hockey, and it turned out to be a good decision.

Carl Hagelin

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

John Webster

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.

Baltasar Gracian

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Lord Byron

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Confucius

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

Albert Camus

Most people are enduring a marginalized isolation. One of the great obstacles to modern friendships is the 'religion of rush.' People are rushing all the time through time. Friendship takes time.

Most people are enduring a marginalized isolation. One of the great obstacles to modern friendships is the 'religion of rush.' People are rushing all the time through time. Friendship takes time.

John O'Donohue

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