Friendship Quotes

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

18559 quotes

"For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather."
Christina Rossetti
"Goblin Market is a celebration of love and female friendship."
Christina Rossetti
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"Friendship is the cement of society."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"A want of friends is a want of everything."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
P
"A friend is a mirror in which we see ourselves."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
Jonathan Swift
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"True friendship is a plant of slow growth."
Jonathan Swift
"Friendship between women is a form of rebellion against isolation."
Eliza Haywood
"A secret shared is a burden halved only if the listener is trustworthy."
Eliza Haywood
"True friendship requires no words, only understanding."
Aphra Behn
"In friendship, vulnerability is strength."
Aphra Behn
S
"The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef."
Samuel Johnson
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"Friendship is the mirror of the soul."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"A friend is one who knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still invites you to grow."
Christina Rossetti
P
"In friendship, we find mirrors of ourselves and windows to others."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
P
"The true friend reflects your virtues and forgives your faults."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"A good friend is worth more than a thousand silver pieces."
Aphra Behn
"True friendship withstands the test of time and circumstance."
Eliza Haywood
J
"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
Jonathan Swift
J
"A nice collection of weak-headed people may be made stronger by mutual support."
Jonathan Swift
J
"The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say a word, and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had."
Jonathan Swift
M
"The companion of our childhood is always the companion of our heart."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
M
"In friendship, we find the reflection of ourselves."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Constancy in friendship is a rare and valuable treasure."
Eliza Haywood
"For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather."
Christina Rossetti
S
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
Samuel Johnson
S
"Friendship may be said to require nourishment of continual intercourse and mutual offices."
Samuel Johnson
"A generous heart is always rich in friends."
Aphra Behn
"A loyal friend is worth more than gold."
Aphra Behn
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"I have always found that the man the most in earnest by far was ever the best Companion."
William Blake