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Friendship Quotes by Famous Authors

1. “In his heart he was highly delighted with his friend’s suggestion, but he thought it a duty to conceal his feeling. He was not a nihilist for nothing!”

Ivan Turgenev

Nihilism, Emotion, Friendship, Concealment, Identity

2. “You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.”

Ivan Turgenev

Friendship, Soul, Distance, Surface, Relationship

3. “Both were silent, but the very way in which they were silent, in which they were sitting together, was expressive of confidential intimacy; each of them seemed not even to be thinking of his companion, while secretly rejoicing in his presence.”

Ivan Turgenev

Silence, Intimacy, Friendship, Presence, Understanding

4. “Both men felt uncomfortable. Each knew the other understood him. That kind of knowledge is agreeable for friends, and for enemies very disagreeable, especially when they can’t either have it out or separate.”

Ivan Turgenev

Friendship, Tension, Understanding, Enemies, Unspoken

5. “In reality you felt at the same time that he could not be friends, nor be really intimate with anyone, and that he could not be so, not because in general he was independent of other people, but because his whole being was for a time turned inwards upon himself.”

Ivan Turgenev

Isolation, Introspection, Friendship, Emotion, Solitude

6. “A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.”

John D. Rockefeller

Friendship, Business, Trust, Relationships, Success

7. “If we truly care for others we need not be anxious about their feelings for us. Like draws to like.”

Andrew Carnegie

Relationships, Care, Connection, Friendship, Love

8. “Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father’s dwelling?”

Charles Lamb

Friendship, Longing, Companionship, Fate, Connection

9. “Oh call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.”

Charles Lamb

Friendship, Love, Connection, Emotion, Warmth

10. “Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.”

Charles Lamb

Friendship, Conversation, Humor, Trust, Companionship

11. “How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.”

Charles Lamb

Loss, Memory, Nostalgia, Friendship, Reflection

12. “I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days – All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.”

Charles Lamb

Nostalgia, Childhood, Friendship, Loss, Memory

13. “I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.”

Charles Lamb

Friendship, Milton, Literature, Writing, Admiration

14. “My friend Sam has one leg. I went to his house. I couldn’t go up the stairs.”

Steven Wright

Friendship, Disability, Stairs, Movement, Humor

15. “The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.”

Steven Wright

Friendship, Connection, Silence, Understanding, Comfort

16. “I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.”

Steven Wright

Imagination, Creativity, Friendship, Mind, Humor

17. “When I was a kid I had a friend who worked in a radio station. Whenever we walked under a bridge, you couldn’t hear what he said.”

Steven Wright

Childhood, Friendship, Humor, Media, Sound

18. “I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.”

Steven Wright

Humor, Personality, Friendship, Introvert, Attention

19. “If your manager is the kindest, when you are at your lowest - you have found a friend.”

Ankur Warikoo

Kindness, Management, Support, Friendship, Empathy

20. “Your true friends are those who are TRULY happy for you when you succeed. Be that true friend for others.”

Ankur Warikoo

Friendship, Happiness, Support, Authenticity, Loyalty

21. “The most value you can add as a friend is to believe in them when they don't.”

Ankur Warikoo

Friendship, Belief, Support, Value, Encouragement

22. “Start taking your life seriously and you start losing your friends.”

Ankur Warikoo

Seriousness, Life, Friendship, Priorities, Change

23. “I can’t think of a man more worthy of the presidency then my good friend Sam Nunn.”

Jimmy Carter

Presidency, Worthiness, Friendship, Sam Nunn, Leadership

24. “When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability.”

Jimmy Carter

Caring, Friendship, Forgiveness, Love, Collective Strength

25. “On the basis of both values and interests, the natural relationship between Islam and the United States is one of friendship.”

Jimmy Carter

Islam, USA, Friendship, Values, Relations

26. “All my playmates on the farm were black, and later, when I started school in Plains, it was all white. But I was always eager to get back home to my friends in Archery.”

Jimmy Carter

Childhood, Race, Friendship, Memories, Home

27. “All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.”

V.S. Naipaul

Writing, Mystery, Life, Friendship, Creativity

28. “A true partner or friend is one who encourages you to look deep inside yourself for the beauty and love you’ve been seeking.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Friendship, Love, Encouragement, Support, Self-Discovery

29. “Friendship is one soul in two bodies.”

Pythagoras

Friendship, Soul, Connection, Wisdom, Unity

30. “We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.”

Pythagoras

Friendship, Enemies, Behavior, Wisdom, Harmony

31. “Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.”

Pythagoras

Friendship, Support, Journey, Perseverance, Happiness

32. “A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.”

Pythagoras

Friendship, Trust, Betrayal, Wisdom, Relationships

33. “Write in the sand the flaws of your friend.”

Pythagoras

Forgiveness, Friendship, Forgetfulness, Compassion, Kindness

34. “A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need.”

Plutarch

Friendship, Trust, Loyalty, Reliability, Wisdom

35. “Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.”

Plutarch

Friendship, Character, Loyalty, Constancy, Intimacy

36. “Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man.”

Plutarch

Friendship, Happiness, Heart, Joy, Companionship

37. “So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.”

Plutarch

Friendship, Trust, Affection, Loyalty, Worthiness

38. “Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.”

Plutarch

Friendship, Adversity, Loyalty, Wealth, Trial

39. “The flatterer’s object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best.”

Plutarch

Friendship, Truth, Honesty, Flattery, Integrity

40. “Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior.”

Plutarch

Friendship, Loyalty, Contentment, Equality, Trust

41. “It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.”

Plutarch

Friendship, Honesty, Character, Praise, Integrity

42. “Adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.”

Plutarch

Adversity, Friendship, Loyalty, Test, Hardship

43. “When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.”

Plutarch

Wealth, Friendship, Loyalty, Betrayal, Greed

44. “I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”

Plutarch

Friendship, Loyalty, Trust, Individuality, Authenticity

45. “Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don’t know what to say.”

Leonard Cohen

Uncertainty, Silence, Understanding, Truth, Friendship

46. “You are certainly one of the joys of life for all who have ever come within a mile of you.”

Thomas Merton

Love, Joy, Friendship, Appreciation, Human Connection

47. “We can be, in some sense, friends to all men because there is no man on earth with whom we do not have something in common. But it would be false to treat too many men as intimate friends. It is not possible to be intimate with more than very few, because there are only very few in the world with whom we have practically everything in common. Love, then, must.”

Thomas Merton

Friendship, Connection, Love, Relationships, Boundaries

48. “On the airplane, Sly and I were smoking stogies and constantly trading jokes. We never talked about the feud. We were typical guys, totally in denial, as if there had never been any problem and nothing had ever happened.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Friendship, Humor, Denial, Feud, Camaraderie

49. “A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquaintance, next a mistress, and only then a friend.”

Anton Chekhov

Relationships, Gender, Friendship, Love, Society

50. “A woman can only become a man’s friend after having first been his acquaintance and then his beloved – then she becomes his friend.”

Anton Chekhov

Friendship, Love, Relationships, Bond, Connection

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