Quotes about friendship

„I was tired of pretending that I was someone else just to get along with people, just for the sake of having friendships.“

—  Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994

„No friendship is an accident.“

—  O. Henry American short story writer 1862 - 1910

Source: Heart of the West

„Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent“

—  Robert Greene, book The 48 Laws of Power

Source: The 48 Laws of Power

„True friendship is like the sun that you can't always see in the darkness of night, but you know will return to brighten your day.“

—  RJ Intindola (Gandolfo)

1987

„In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.“

—  Fulton J. Sheen Catholic bishop and television presenter 1895 - 1979

„I no longer have patience for certain things, not because I’ve become arrogant, but simply because I reached a point in my life where I do not want to waste more time with what displeases me or hurts me. I have no patience for cynicism, excessive criticism and demands of any nature. I lost the will to please those who do not like me, to love those who do not love me and to smile at those who do not want to smile at me. I no longer spend a single minute on those who lie or want to manipulate. I decided not to coexist anymore with pretense, hypocrisy, dishonesty and cheap praise. I do not tolerate selective erudition nor academic arrogance. I do not adjust either to popular gossiping. I hate conflict and comparisons. I believe in a world of opposites and that’s why I avoid people with rigid and inflexible personalities. In friendship I dislike the lack of loyalty and betrayal. I do not get along with those who do not know how to give a compliment or a word of encouragement. Exaggerations bore me and I have difficulty accepting those who do not like animals. And on top of everything I have no patience for anyone who does not deserve my patience.“

—  Meryl Streep American actress 1949

Misattributed to Meryl Streep (and widely disseminated on the Internet as of August/September 2014), this quote is allegedly a translation of a text by the author José Micard Teixeira, the original of which begins (in Portuguese): "Já não tenho paciência para algumas coisas, não porque me tenha tornado arrogante..."
Misattributed

„There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.“

—  Thomas Aquinas Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church 1225 - 1274

„We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.“

—  Orson Welles American actor, director, writer and producer 1915 - 1985

„As one gains wisdom, you will realize that the number of friends is not important as the quality of them. The characteristics of quality friendship include trust, loyalty, respect, and time.“

—  RJ Intindola (Gandolfo)

1980

„Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.“

—  Stephen King, book Hearts in Atlantis

Source: Hearts in Atlantis

„Be true to yourself.
Make each day your masterpiece.
Help others.
Drink deeply from good books.
Make friendship a fine art.
Build a shelter against a rainy day.
Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.“

—  John Wooden American basketball coach 1910 - 2010

„Sometimes defining friendship can be simple. If your heart still aches after someone has passed, then you were a true and close friend. They may have physically left this world, but they still walk among us in our hearts.“

—  RJ Intindola (Gandolfo)

2018

„“Friendship is rooted in the protection of deep dark secrets.”“

—  RJ Intindola (Gandolfo)

1971

„In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.“

—  Robert Louis Stevenson, book Across the Plains

Source: Across the Plains (1892), Ch. IX, Beggars.
Context: We should wipe two words from our vocabulary: gratitude and charity. In real life, help is given out of friendship, or it is not valued; it is received from the hand of friendship, or it is resented.

„Jay Z: We are good friends, but what I got to say has nothing to do with our friendship. I have been in the industry long enough to know when I’m in the presence of a genius… and Chris Martin is just that. In years to come, Britain will look back at him as a modern day Shakespeare, he is an incredible recording artist, an incredible songwriter, but where he really comes alive is performing live. If you get the chance to see Coldplay live, do it, you ain’t gonna regret it.“

—  Chris Martin musician, co-founder of Coldplay 1977

http://www.metroguiltypleasures.com/metro/coldplays-chris-martin-is-a-modern-day-shakespeare-says-jay-z/ source

„Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.“

—  Charles Caleb Colton British priest and writer 1777 - 1832

Vol. II; LXXXIII
Lacon

„Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.“

—  Bruce Lee Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker 1940 - 1973

„Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.“

—  Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

Lord Darlington, Act II
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

„We mistakenly equate flattery to friendship and criticism to opposition; one should evaluate truth first and then judge, for flattery and criticism are primarily opinion.“

—  RJ Intindola (Gandolfo)

1975