Quotes about Friendship

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship and he who plants kindness gathers love.

I never met a man that I didn't like.

Ireland treats you more like a friend than a tourist.

His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of mans heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress -- for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

God sends people into our lives just when we need them, to say the right word, His word, just when we need it.