Quotes about friend
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“She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.”

Ann Brashares book Sisterhood Everlasting

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting

Parting

“Anger is only our friend when we know its caliber and how to aim it.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: UnWholly

Anger

“… The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground… they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us…”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Heart

“We swore sacred oaths to be strong and to save the planet and to be friends forever.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

Strong

“You are your own best friend. Never ever, put yourself down.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“This is the hard part about having best friends that I feel no attachment to -- I don't give them any benefit of the doubt. And being best friends is always about the benefit of the doubt.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Feeling, Parting

“Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“…that perfect Tranquillity of Life, which is no where to be found, but in retreat, a faithful Friend and a good Library…”

Aphra Behn (1640–1689) British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer

The Lucky Mistake (1689).
Source: The Lucky Chance, Or, the Alderman's Bargain

Life, Faith, Perfection

“You’ll never regret being a good friend.”

Emily Giffin Something Borrowed

Source: Something Borrowed

“Mom’s Israeli. Dad’s Brazilian. What can I say? I am Embassy Row personified. You really lucked out in the best friend department”

Ally Carter book All Fall Down

Source: All Fall Down

Moms

“And remember, my sentimental friend, that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

this is a line spoken by Frank Morgan's depiction of the Wizard of Oz in the 1939 film, which debuted 20 years after Baum's death. It did not actually appear in the "Wonderful Wizard of Oz". The ending of "Steam Engines of Oz" wrongly attributes this phrase to Baum when it would've originated from the 1939 adaptation script writers Langley/Ryerson/Woolf.
Misattributed
Variant: A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others
Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Love, Heart

“my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.”

Nick Hornby book High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

People

“What did that stupid deserting crap-bag ex-boyfriend, ex-best friend with the most perfect stupid hair do? He DIDN'T delete his crap off the desktop before he fled my life and left me all alone. That's what he did.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Fang

Life, Stupidity, Perfection

“Wherever you are it is your own friends who make your world.”

William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist

As quoted in The Thought and Character of William James (1935) by Ralph Barton Perry, Vol. II, ch. 91
1890s

World

“Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

“If you are a guild, take care of your friends. That is all I have to say.”

Hiro Mashima (1977) Japanese manga artist

“Common danger made common friends”

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer

“In losing a friend, she is reminded of all she has lost and all she stands to lose again. There is nothing to be done to make it any easier.
We all grieve alone.”

Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer

Source: Incantation

“Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.”

Ellis Peters (1913–1995) British writer

Source: A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs

People

“I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.”

Annie Dillard (1945) American writer

Source: The Writing Life

Books, Hope

“Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can.”

Arundhati Roy book The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Source: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“Strangers see you the way you want them to see you. You can't fool friends…that's what makes them friends…
Pretty Little Liars”

Sara Shepard (1973) Author

Fools, Way

“To my mind, the only possible pet is a cow. Cows love you. They will listen to your problems and never ask a thing in return. They will be your friends forever. And when you get tired of them, you can kill and eat them. Perfect.”

Bill Bryson (1951) American author

Love, Problem, Perfection

“That is — your friend?"
"Philtatos," Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

From his book Groucho and Me. It is a variation of a maxim by 17th-century French nobleman François de La Rochefoucauld: "In the adversity of our best friends, we often find something that is not displeasing." (Maxim 99 from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims, 1665 edition.)

Failure

“All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.”

Dave Eggers book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Life

“Does the road wind up-hill all the way?
Yes, to the very end.
Will the day's journey take the whole long day?
From morn to night, my friend.”

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet

Up-Hill http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/rossetti.uphill.html, st. 1 (1861).

Way, Night

“You know, when most girls say they want a big rock, they don't mean, you know, literally a big rock."
"Very amusing, my sarcastic friend. It's not a rock, precisely. All Shadowhunters have a witchlight rune-stone.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Girl

“The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.”

John Masefield (1878–1967) English poet and writer

Soul, Distant

“What is this Chocho business?' Will muttered to himself. But his friends overheard the comment.
'It's a term of great respect,' they chorused, and he glared at them.
'Oh, shut up,' he said.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

Business

“the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That's just what best friends do.”

Sara Shepard Pretty Little Liars

Source: Pretty Little Liars

Girl

“I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Andrea raised her hand. “This is the hand that slapped Aunt B.”
“Maybe you should have it gold-plated.”
“Here, you can touch it, since you’re my best friend.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

“We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Fear, Family, Time

“It truly sucks to doubt your friends when you only have one or two of them, I realized.”

Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer

Source: Working for the Devil

“I'm tired of being your best friend. I'm tired of being second best. I won't settle for that anymore. It's all or nothing, Schuyler. You have to decide. Him or me.

- Oliver Hazzard-Perry”

Melissa de la Cruz book Revelations

Source: Revelations

“Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend.”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

“I want you to know, my dear friend, that without you, I would not be the person I am today." He leaned in close and whispered, "I was a broken boy, and you fixed me. Thank you.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Last Guardian

Boy, Personality

“That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Firefly Lane

Heart, Friendship, For Friend, For Bestfriend

“She realized all at once that Doon, thin, dark eyed Doon, with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket, and his good heart---- was the person she knew better than anyone now. He was her best friend.
--City of Ember”

Jeanne DuPrau (1944) American writer

Heart, Personality

“I can tell we’re going to get along like Batman and the Joker. (Fang)
Just remember one thing, world. I’m the best friend you’ll ever have or the last enemy you’ll ever make. (Thorn)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Bad Moon Rising

World

“Meraa mitra yahaan aaiye," he murmurs. I understand only a little Hindi, enough to know what he has said: Come here, my friend.
I've never known a braver girl," he says.”

Libba Bray book Rebel Angels

Source: Rebel Angels

Girl, Understanding

“I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinking alone, without even an imaginary playmate.”

Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer

“It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.”

Lois Lowry book A Summer to Die

Source: A Summer to Die

Understanding, Time, Cry

“if you find one true friend in your life, you're richer than most. If that one true friend is your husband, you're blessed."

She paused. "And if that one true friend is your sister, don't feel bad. At least, she can't divorce you.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The First Phone Call from Heaven

Life, Feeling, Sister

“Our habits are our friends. Even our bad habits.”

Georges Bernanos book The Diary of a Country Priest

The Diary of a Country Priest

“My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Decision

“The older you get, the more you realize you need a handful of good, close, tight friends.”

Nicole Richie (1981) American television personality, musician, actress, and author

“Sitting with her on Sunday evening — a wet Sunday evening — the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told…”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

Source: Mansfield Park

Time, Heart

“Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.”

Alice Hoffman book Practical Magic

Source: Practical Magic

Women, Men, Lie, Dogs

“Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them.”

John Hodgman book The Areas of My Expertise

Source: The Areas of My Expertise (2005), p. 46

Business, Thinking

“Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.”

Les Brown (1945) American politician

Friendship, For Friend, For Bestfriend

“I bring you a message from a friend of ours," she said quietly. "He wanted you to know that he's not dead. He can't be killed."
"He is hope."
The she raised the spear and rammed it directly into the Lord Ruler's heart.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

Hope, Heart, Dead

“I have another friend who gets what I’m really like, and I get her. She scares me. Did you ever see yourself times ten in another person and want to cover your eyes?”

Megan Abbott book The Fever

Source: The Fever

Time, Personality

“Your pet is not your friend. It is your hostage.”

Scott Dikkers (1965) American comic writer

Source: You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day

“No stonger allies no greater friends no bigger fighters of honor could a king behould then these assembled afore me mine brothers mine blood”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Avenged

“Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1950s, Loving Your Enemies (Christmas 1957)
Context: A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power.

Love, Friendship, For Him, For Friend