Friendship Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about friendship.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

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We are all travelers in the desert of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Henry Adams

Henry Adams

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One friend in life is plenty. Two are too many. Three are impossible.

Edmundo de Amicis

Edmundo de Amicis

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The friendships are like marriages: out of every ten, one is made out of love.

Anne of Austria

Anne of Austria

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When the voice of an enemy accuses, the silence of a friend condemns.

Anonymous

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Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tests them.

Anonymous

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One who is only attentive to their own pretensions never maintains strong friendships.

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore

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True friendship is like phosphorescence, it shines best when everything has darkened.

George Washington

George Washington

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True friendship is a plant of slow growth that must suffer and overcome the onslaughts of misfortune before its fruits reach full maturity.

Simone Weil

Simone Weil

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To desire friendship is a great mistake. Friendship should be a free enjoyment, like those provided by art or life.

Ramón de Campoamor

Ramón de Campoamor

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Friendship is a love that is not communicated through the senses.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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Each new friend we make in the race of life perfects and enriches us even more through what it reveals about ourselves, rather than what it gives us.

Peter Alexander Ustinov

Peter Alexander Ustinov

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I don't believe that friends are necessarily the people you like the most, they are simply the people who were there first.