Friendship Quotes

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial; but generally speaking, it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber: it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! and unfortunately, there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late.

She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.

However difficult it is to be the homely friend of a reputed beauty, there are certain benefits. Most days, the humiliation of being the second choice is outweighed by the overflow of disappointed gentlemen.

An old friend is like a tender memory or a comfortable shoe. It takes years of caring to get to that point.

Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.

True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.