Friendship Quotes

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

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"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."
William Butler Yeats
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"Friendship is a gift that should be treasured."
Thomas Hardy
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"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
Oscar Wilde
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"Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success."
Oscar Wilde
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"Friendship is the highest form of human connection."
James Joyce
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"Friendship is the greatest luxury of life."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Friendship is the purest love."
George Eliot
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"I desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me."
George Eliot
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"Friendship is not something that can exist between people if they cannot tolerate differences."
George Eliot
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"The friends that have it I do wrong when ever I remake a song, should know what issue is at stake."
William Butler Yeats
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"A man wins friends by his manner, not by his opinions."
William Butler Yeats
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"What is the use of health without friendship?"
Emily Brontë
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"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."
George Bernard Shaw
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"I hate intellectual people; all my best friends are wonderful dunces."
George Bernard Shaw
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"Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer."
Oscar Wilde
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"The basis of literary friendship is mixing the wine and water of life."
Oscar Wilde
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"Good friend, come out a minute until we talk."
James Joyce
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"True friendship survives time, distance, and misunderstanding."
Anne Brontë
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"Loyalty is a currency more valuable than gold."
Anne Brontë
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"Friendship is the one relationship not bound by biology or law."
Thomas Hardy
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"Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words."
George Eliot
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"Animals are such agreeable friends; they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."
George Eliot
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"Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance."
George Eliot
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"Friendship is all about trust, understanding, and holding each other through seasons of change."
William Butler Yeats
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"The friends that have it I do wrong when ever I praise anyone; but the life that I praise is the life that God and Nature have made."
William Butler Yeats
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"I have learned that friendship is the greatest gift life can offer."
Charlotte Brontë
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"The only service a friend can really render is to guard the sleep of another."
George Bernard Shaw
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"True friendship is rare and therefore infinitely precious."
Anne Brontë
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"In loyalty lies true friendship."
Emily Brontë