Friendship Quotes

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

18559 quotes

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"Friendship is love without the sting of impossible desire."
Thomas Hardy
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"Friendship requires the courage to be wholly oneself."
Thomas Hardy
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"Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person."
George Eliot
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"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again"
Charles Dickens
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"Fair weather friends may abound when fortune smiles"
Charles Dickens
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"What greater gift than the love of a faithful friend"
Charles Dickens
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"In friendship, as in love, honesty is essential."
Anne Brontë
"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
Émile Zola
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"Companionship is a wonderful thing, even with one's shortcomings."
Charlotte Brontë
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"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your illusions."
George Bernard Shaw
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"True friendship requires complete honesty and acceptance."
Emily Brontë
"To read is to have company."
Gustave Flaubert
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"Delightful to have friends whose minds are of such superior quality that one cannot quarrel with them."
George Eliot
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"What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined"
Charles Dickens
"Friendship is the greatest wealth one can possess."
Émile Zola
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"A true friend stabs you in the front."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which increasingly tends to deal only in abstracts."
Alexandre Dumas
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"All for one, and one for all."
Alexandre Dumas
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"True friendship knows no boundaries of distance or time."
Alexandre Dumas
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"There is no man so perfect as not to have need of friends."
Alexandre Dumas
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"Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life."
Honoré de Balzac
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"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers."
Victor Hugo
"Friendship is the hardest thing to explain."
Gustave Flaubert
"Friendship is the bridge between solitude and companionship."
Émile Zola
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"All for one, and one for all."
Alexandre Dumas
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"One cannot be too careful in the choice of one's friends."
Alexandre Dumas
"The companion of our childhood is always the friend of our heart."
Mary Shelley
"There is something sacred in the bond of friendship."
Mary Shelley
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"Friendship requires honesty above all."
Charlotte Brontë
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"In the presence of true love and friendship, nothing is impossible."
Charles Dickens