Friends Quotes

It is absolutely okay with me if you need to keep some secrets. I've been thinking about this and I decided that a best friend is someone who, when they don't understand, they still understand.

~ Nancy Werlin

There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.

~ J.d. Robb

Just because I've gone and snagged myself a hot boyfriend doesn't mean I'm going to leave my bestfriend high and dry.

~ Becca Fitzpatrick

The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend.

~ Stephen Richards

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

~ Henry David Thoreau

If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rather than for our own.

~ Charlotte Brontë

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

When twilight drops her curtain down And pins it with a star Remember that you have a friend Though she may wander far.

~ L.m. Montgomery

It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

~ Aesop

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

~ Richard Russo

There are two kinds of friendship: the beneficial friendship and the erroneous friendship. The erroneous friendship balances on the principle of the closer we are, the more okay it is for me to say anything I want to you and for me to treat you any way that I want to, and for me to disrespect you and take advantage of you while a true friendship is rooted in this principle: the closer we are, the more respect I have for you, the better I will treat you, the higher I will regard you, the more good things I will wish for you. You will know someone is a true friend by basis of observing their actions towards you as the friendship grows deeper. A true friend will continue to hold you in higher and higher regard while the error of a friend will see your goodwill and newfound fondness as basis to do and say whatever he/she wants, that is disrespectful and non-beneficial to you.

~ C. Joybell C.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world are the moments you share with someone when you're uncool.

~ Cameron Crowe

If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.

~ Héloïse D'argenteuil

Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.

~ Chris Bradford

Never mind, said Hachiko each day. Here I wait, for my friend who’s late. I will stay, just to walk beside you for one more day.

~ Jess C. Scott

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

~ Ray Bradbury

Celebrate the people in your life who are there because they love you for no other reason than because you are YOU.

~ Mandy Hale

I’m never sad when a friend goes far away, because whichever city or country that friend goes to, they turn the place friendly. They turn a suspicious-looking name on the map into a place where a welcome can be found. Maybe the friend will talk about you sometimes, to other friends that live around him, and then that’s almost as good as being there yourself. You’re in several places at once! In fact, my daughter, I would even go so far as to say that the further away your friends, and the more spread out they are the better your chances of going safely through the world…

~ Helen Oyeyemi

He looked at his friend, perhaps for the last time, and said what he had always known, from the moment they’d met, when he’d understood that the prince was his brother in soul. “I love you.

~ Sarah J. Maas

Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.

~ T.h. White

Free your life from the fangs of gossips by not associating yourself with them. Anyone who helps you to gossip about someone can also help someone to gossip about you.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a sad fact, but it's true. A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know?

~ Lemmy Kilmister

It's my job as best friend to make sure he's not a serial killer. Or an English major, not sure which one's worse.

~ Shelly Crane

Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they don’t understand you at all.

~ Natsuo Kirino

Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Even though friends say they are interested in your life, they never really want to talk about you as much as you want them to. (68)

~ Charise Mericle Harper

I want to learn how to speak to anyone at any time and make us both feel a little bit better, lighter, richer, with no commitments of ever meeting again. I want to learn how to stand wherever with whoever and still feel stable. I want to learn how to unlock the locks to our minds, my mind, so that when I hear opinions or views that don’t match up with mine, I can still listen and understand. I want to burn up lifeless habits of following maps and to-do lists, concentrated liquids to burn my mind and throatand I want to go back to the way nature shaped me. I want to learn to go on well with whatever I have in my hands at the momentin a natural state of mind,certain like the sea.I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

When we make friends then we change from being animals to being human.

~ Stephen Richards

Without a best friend to tell stories to, it almost didn't matter if they even happened.

~ Leila Howland

It is as easy to find a lover as to keep a friend, but as hard to find a friend as to keep a lover.

~ Emma Frances Dawson

Such lonely, lost things you find on your way. It would be easier, if you were the only one lost. But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized and can only attract their like. How I would like to lead you to brave, stalwart friends who would protect you and play games with dice and teach you delightful songs that have no sad endings. If you would only leave cages locked and turn away from unloved Wyverns, you could stay Heartless.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

How could you carry the inside of a person with you and not call them a friend, no matter what the rules said?

~ Barbara Samuel

A true friend finds a way to celebrate—even in the worst moments of life—and forces it upon you.

~ Rionna Morgan

Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

~ Nikki Sixx

Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.

~ Gregory David Roberts

I was the Duff. And that was a good thing. Because anyone who didn't feel like the Duff must not have friends. Every girl feels unattractive sometimes. Why had it taken me so long to figure that out? Why had I been stressing over that dumb word for so long when it was so simple? I should be proud to be the Duff. Proud to have great friends who, in their minds, were my Duffs.

~ Kody Keplinger

Friends never turn as enemies. If they did, they were never your friends at all.

~ Hark Herald Sarmiento

By the way, Doctor, I shall want your cooperation.''I shall be delighted.''You don't mind breaking the law?''Not in the least.''Nor running a chance of arrest?''Not in a good cause.''Oh, the cause is excellent!''Then I am your man.''I was sure that I might rely on you.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Martin is your best friend, isn't he?' a sweet and well-intentioned girl once said when both of us were present: it was the only time I ever felt awkward about this precious idea, which seemed somehow to risk diminishment if it were uttered aloud.

~ Christopher Hitchens