Friendship Quotes

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

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"Friendship is a sheltering tree."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship"
Lord Byron
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"There is a strength of friendship"
Lord Byron
"The cupidity of my friend has rendered my life a hell."
Mary Shelley
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"Have you ever stopped to consider that a friend is one who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are."
Victor Hugo
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"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
Victor Hugo
"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends."
Jane Austen
"Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does."
Jane Austen
"Friendship is the shadow of the evening in the life of man."
William Wordsworth
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"Friendship is love without wings."
Lord Byron
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"Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Friendship is a sheltering tree."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The essence of friendship is entireness."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"I have always had the same religiously earnest Wish for the happiness of my friends."
John Keats
"To walk together as friends through this universe is the greatest pursuit of all."
William Wordsworth
"In the eyes of a friend, we see our truest reflection."
William Wordsworth
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"There are no greater friends than those who share in sorrow"
William Shakespeare
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"Friendship may, and often does, begin in a moment; but love which is worthy of the name must ripen slowly."
Lord Byron
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"Friendship is a sheltering tree."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Nothing is so unimaginable as a human fate without a Friend."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends."
John Milton
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"I would jump down Aetna for your public and private devotion."
John Keats
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"I could pass my whole life in conversation."
John Keats
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"The path of true friendship never runs smooth"
William Shakespeare
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"An envious heart makes a treacherous friend"
William Shakespeare
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"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship."
Lord Byron
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"True friendship is the greatest treasure a soul can possess."
Dante Alighieri
"Friendship is a treasure more valuable than gold, for it enriches the spirit in ways material goods cannot."
William Wordsworth