Quotes about friendship
200 quotes from 127 people
Richard Francis Burton1821–1890The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge1772–1834Duty surviving Self-Love (1826)
William Penn1644–1718More Fruits of Solitude (1702), nos. 127–134
Frank Sinatra1915–1998In a 1965 interview with Walter Cronkite, as quoted in “Just A Couple Of Legends” CBS News.com (20 May 1998)
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Four Loves (1960), IntroductionThough passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lamaborn 1935The Little Book of Buddhism (2000)
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Letter to Hester Thrale (5 July 1783)The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley MacLaineborn 1934Don’t Fall Off the Mountain (1970)
Rishi Sunakborn 1980From the BBC documentary series Middle Classes—Their Rise and Sprawl (23 March 2001), as cited in “Rishi Sunak suggests he doesn’t have ‘working class’ friends in resurfaced documentary” The Independent (9 July 2022)Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friendNow they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.
