Quotes about friendship

My chief consolation in this year of living dyingly has been the presence of friends.

Count me not your friend but the enemy of your enemies.

A man without friends is a tree without leaves.

You just had to decide who your friends really were.

What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn't get so mad at them.

His poor soul was flooded with pleasure as he realized that one friend was all that a man needed in order to be well-supplied with friendship.

If you want to get an idea of a friend's temperament, ethics, and personal elegance, you need to look at him under the tests of severe circumstances, not under the regular rosy glow of daily life. Can you assess the danger a criminal poses by examining only what he does on an ordinary day? Can we understand health without considering wild diseases and epidemics? Indeed the normal is often irrelevant.

I never really have believed in the existence of friendship in big societies—in great towns and great crowds. It is a plant that takes times and space and air; and London society is a huge "squash," as we elegantly call it—an elbowing, pushing, perspiring, chattering mob.

She often wondered indeed if she ever had been, or ever could be, intimate with anyone. She had an ideal of friendship as well as of several other sentiments, which it failed to seem to her in this case – it had not seemed to her in other cases – that the actual completely expressed.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

It occurred to me that if my friends were loathsome, perhaps I needed to learn from my enemies.

He isn't insane, he's simply as trapped in his life as I am in mine. That makes us friends.