# Quotes about friendship - Quotes: 14 - Authors: 8 - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship ## Quotes > Everybody is friends when things are bad enough. [Ernest Hemingway](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway.md) · [Islands in the Stream](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/islands-in-the-stream.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ernest-hemingway/islands-in-the-stream/everybody-is-friends.md) Topics: [friendship](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship.md) > 'Why can't we be friends now?' said the other, holding him affectionately. 'It's what I want. It's what you want.' But the horses didn't want it — they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices 'No, not yet,' and the sky said 'No, not there.' [E.M. Forster](https://www.leafyquotes.com/em-forster.md) · [A Passage to India](https://www.leafyquotes.com/em-forster/a-passage-to-india.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/em-forster/a-passage-to-india/why-cant-we-be-friends.md) Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md), [friendship](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship.md) > Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend? [Jane Austen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen.md) · [Emma](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/emma.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/emma/where-shall-we-see.md) Topics: [family](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/family.md), [friendship](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship.md) > Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does. [Jane Austen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen.md) · [Emma](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/emma.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/emma/business-you-know.md) Topics: [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md), [friendship](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship.md) > '...there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them." [Jane Austen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen.md) · [Pride and Prejudice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice/there-is-nothing.md) Topics: [loneliness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness.md), [friendship](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship.md) > "Mr. Wickham is blessed with such happy manners as may ensure his making friends—whether he may be equally capable of retaining them, is less certain." [Jane Austen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen.md) · [Pride and Prejudice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice/mr-wickham-is-blessed.md) Topics: [friendship](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship.md) > "To yield readily—easily—to the persuasion of a friend is no merit with you." > > "To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either." > > "You appear to me, Mr. Darcy, to allow nothing for the influence of friendship and affection." [Jane Austen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen.md) · [Pride and Prejudice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-austen/pride-and-prejudice/to-yield-readily-easily-to.md) Topics: [friendship](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship.md) > And what is friendship but a name, > > A charm that lulls to sleep, > > A shade that follows wealth or fame, > > And leaves the wretch to weep? [Oliver Goldsmith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/oliver-goldsmith.md) · [The Vicar of Wakefield](https://www.leafyquotes.com/oliver-goldsmith/the-vicar-of-wakefield.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/oliver-goldsmith/the-vicar-of-wakefield/and-what-is-friendship.md) Topics: [friendship](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship.md) > Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends. [Erica Jong](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong.md) · [How to Save Your Own Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life/friends-love-misery.md) Topics: [friendship](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship.md) > Moreover, if the character is formed, and the mind made up, on the few cardinal points of human opinion, agreement of conviction and feeling on these, has been felt in all times to be an essential requisite of anything worthy the name of friendship, in a really earnest mind. All these circumstances united, made the number very small of those whose society, and still more whose intimacy, I now voluntarily sought. [John Stuart Mill](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-stuart-mill.md) · [Autobiography](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-stuart-mill/autobiography.md) · p. 229 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-stuart-mill/autobiography/moreover-if-the.md) Topics: [friendship](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship.md) > It was the period of my mental progress which I have now reached that I formed the friendship which has been the honour and chief blessing of my existence, as well as the source of a great part of all that I have attempted to do, or hope to effect hereafter, for human improvement. My first introduction to the lady who, after a friendship of twenty years, consented to become my wife, was in 1830, when I was in my twenty-fifth and she in her twenty-third year. [John Stuart Mill](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-stuart-mill.md) · [Autobiography](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-stuart-mill/autobiography.md) · p. 184 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-stuart-mill/autobiography/it-was-the.md) Topics: [marriage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage.md), [friendship](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship.md) > Anyway, just because you're sworn enemies doesn't mean you can't be friends, does it? [Terry Pratchett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett.md) · [The Carpet People](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-carpet-people.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/terry-pratchett/the-carpet-people/anyway-just-because.md) Topics: [relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md), [friendship](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship.md) > When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition. [Aristotle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle.md) · [Nicomachean Ethics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle/nicomachean-ethics.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle/nicomachean-ethics/when-people-are.md) Topics: [justice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice.md), [friendship](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship.md) > The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake. [Aristotle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle.md) · [Nicomachean Ethics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle/nicomachean-ethics.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle/nicomachean-ethics/the-best-friend.md) Topics: [friendship](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship.md)