Quotes about friendship

To discover evil in a new friend is to most people only an additional experience.

Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive. (p. 188)

"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature." - Isabella Thorpe, en:s:Northanger Abbey/Chapter 6

"Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know."

Dick never thought that his bottle companion was a butt to aim at—only a friend to shake by the hand.

"Where you are going now," Schmendrick answered, "few will mean you anything but evil, and a friendly heart — however foolish — may be as welcome as water one day. Take me with you, for laughs, for luck, for the unknown. Take me with you."

"You fertility deities are worse than Marxists," he said. "You think that's all that goes on between people. We were just friends for a time, but she is too hard on her friends and so loses them."

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

Serious reflexion about one's own character will often induce a curious sense of emptiness; and if one knows another person well, one may sometimes intuit a similar void in him. (This is one of the strange privileges of friendship.)

Dull grown-ups and bright children form a particularly tolerant friendship.

Love is not dependency or sex, but is friendship, and, therefore, love can't exist between two males, between a male and a female or between two females, one or both of whom is a mindless, insecure, pandering male; like conversation it can exist only between two secure, free-wheeling, independent, groovy female females, as friendship is based on [respect, not contempt.]