Friendship Quotes

The chosen family. Quotes about the people who show up, stick around, and make life better.

18559 quotes

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"There is a sympathy that will make us friends with anyone."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"The love of a friend is measured not by words or deeds, but by sacrifice."
Edgar Allan Poe
"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Friendship that flows from heart is a divine blessing."
Emily Dickinson
"Friendship is a gift."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Ah, the awful truth about friendship."
Henry James
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"Friendship is love without its wings."
Henry James
"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
Mark Twain
"Circumstances make relatives and adventures make friendship."
Mark Twain
"The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature."
Mark Twain
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"A friendship tested by adversity becomes unbreakable."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends."
Herman Melville
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"Amity is an obligation in the form of truth and faith."
Anatole France
"Friendship is the act of choosing someone else's burden as your own."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Friendship is the luxury of choosing our family."
François Mauriac
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"The capacity for friendship requires the capacity for solitude."
Henry James
"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
Mark Twain
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends."
Mark Twain
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"True friendship is a kind of soulcraft."
Herman Melville
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"We are never allowed to doubt our friends unless we are sure of them."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"The depth of friendship is not measured by time, but by sincerity."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"True friendship is rarer than genius."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Friendship requires honesty that most people cannot bear."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"A friend is a treasure."
Romain Rolland
"True friendship is rare and precious."
Romain Rolland
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"Friendship demands honesty even when kindness might choose silence."
François Mauriac
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"The great thing about friendship is not what you accomplish together, but the simple joy of companionship"
Henry James
"The greatest fortune is the friendship of those we admire."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
Marcel Proust
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"We accept everything about our friends except the way they behave."
Marcel Proust