Friendship Quotes in English

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.– Brandi Snyder

Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.– Albert Camus

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.— Dale Carnegie

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.— Carl W. Buechner

Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.– Unknown

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter,for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.– Khalil Gibran

The best time to make friends is before you need them.– Ethel Barrymore

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends – Abraham Lincoln

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.– Tennessee Williams

It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.– Epicurus

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.— Miles Franklin

It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.– Marlene Dietrich

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. – Linda Grayson

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.– Donna Roberts

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.– Charles Kingsley

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.— Joseph F. Newton Men

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when someone asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.— Henry David Thoreau

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.– Bernard Meltzer

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.– Maxwell Maltz

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.– Anais Nin

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.– Donald Miller

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence; which costs us nothing.— John Tillotson

A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.– Arthur Brisbane

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.— Oprah Winfrey

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.– Elisabeth Foley

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.– Oscar Wilde

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.– Ed Cunningham

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.– Woodrow T. Wilson

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.– Alice Walker

Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.– Mark Twain

You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.– Laurence J. Peter

If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.– Zig Ziglar

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

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy,they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.– Marcel Proust

In the End,we will remember not the words of our enemies,but the silence of our friends.– Martin Luther King, Jr.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.– Clifton Fadiman

Be slow to fall into friendship,but when thou art in, continue firm & constant.– Socrates

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others,for beautiful lips,speak only words of kindness,and for poise,walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.— Audrey Hepburn

One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.– George Santayana

Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side,our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for that.– Ally Condie

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.– Friedrich Nietzsche

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.– Arnold H. Glasgow

The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.– Eugene Kennedy

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

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.– Arnold H. Glasgow

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.– Oscar Wilde

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.– Confucius

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.– Unknown

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.— Dale Carnegie

Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.– Thomas J. Watson

A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.– Leo Buscaglia

There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.– Jim Henson

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.– Washington Irving

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.– David Tyson

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, What! You too, I thought I was the only one.– C.S. Lewis

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.– Ernest Hemingway

If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.– Winnie the Pooh

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. – Walter Winchell