Quotes about friendship
200 quotes from 127 people
You show people what you’re willing to fight for when you fight your friends.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol I (1755), p. 83Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886Letter to Samuel Bowles (August 1858 or 1859); Thomas H. Johnson (ed.) The Letters of Emily Dickinson (1958) p. 338, no. 193Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
HNHoward W. NewtonOften credited to Isaac NewtonThose will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
Never explain—your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915The Motto Book (1907)Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 112Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle384–322 BCNicomachean Ethics, Book VIII, 1155a.5
Francis Bacon1561–1626Apophthegms (1624), No. 97It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.
E. B. White1899–1985Charlotte’s Web, last lines
Voltaire1694–1778Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville (16 May 1767)
