Quotes about friendship

Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it.

Bill Bradley

If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

Michelle Obama

Friendship with the upright, with the truthful and with the well informed is beneficial. Friendship with those who flatter, with those who are meek and who compromise with principles, and with those who talk cleverly is harmful.

Confucius

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

Oscar Wilde

I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked him if he’d been drunk the night before, he would always answer offhandedly, ‘Oh, I imagine.’ I’ve always liked that answer. It acknowledges life as a dream.

Kurt Vonnegut

If I am attempting to describe him, it is in order not to forget him. It is sad to forget a friend. Not every one has had a friend.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

Jean de La Bruyere

If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The free conversation of a friend is what I would prefer to any environment.

David Hume

It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

Cicero