Friendship Quotes

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.

In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner’s foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.

Friendships are the family we make – not the one we inherit. I’ve always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Friendship brings in a lot of honesty and trust into any relationship, especially a marriage.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.