Quotes About Friendship

Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I've not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.

The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work.

Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.

All lasting business is built on friendship.

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

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.