Quotes about friendship


True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
Joseph Addison (The Spectator, March 17, 1911)
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle (Eudemian Ethics)
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Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)
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It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.
Lawana Blackwell (The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998)
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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 ("The Book of Today")
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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
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The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.
Pierre Charron
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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
Colette (The Pure and the Impure, 1932)
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