Sisters Friendship Quotes

• Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend

  In Diogenes Laertius 'Lives of Eminent Philosophers' bk. 5, sect. 20

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• In thee my soul shall own combined the sister and the friend.

  Catherine Killigrew

  Sister, Sibling, Soul

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• Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Sister, Sweet, Brother

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.1219, Delphi Classics

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• Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.

  Ugo Betti

  Sister, Sibling, Love Is

  Ugo Betti (1968). “Three Plays”

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• I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.

  Emily Dickinson

  Sister, Sibling, Might

  Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.148, Harvard University Press

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• Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

  Jane Austen

  Sister, Brother, Children

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.208

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• There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Sister, Sibling, Situations In Life

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.200

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• If you don't understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.

  Linda Sunshine

  Sister, Funny Inspirational, Children

  Linda Sunshine (2012). “Mom Loves Me Best: (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister)”, p.20, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

  Christina Rossetti

  Family, Sister, Cheer

  1862 Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Goblin Market'.

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• When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?

  Pam Brown

  Sister, Sibling, Sorority

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• I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

  Maya Angelou

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• Sisters make the best friends in the world.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Sister, World, Heartbreaking Love

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• I think I'm funny because my family, my siblings were funny.

  Martin Short

  Brother, Sibling, Thinking

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• That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.

  Kristin Hannah

  Best Friend, Friends, Mother

  Kristin Hannah (2008). “Firefly Lane”, p.273, Macmillan

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• We are sisters. We will always be sisters. Our differences may never go away, but neither, for me, will our song.

  Elizabeth Fishel

  Sister, Song, Differences

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• If sisters were free to express how they really feel, parents would hear this: "Give me all the attention and all the toys and send Rebecca to live with Grandma."

  Linda Sunshine

  Funny, Sister, Sibling

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• Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.

  Pam Brown

  Funny, Sister, Sibling

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• Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.

  Gail Sheehy

  Birthday, Sister, Children

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• Whatever you do they will love you; even if they don't love you they are connected to you till you die. You can be boring and tedious with -sisters, whereas you have to put on a good face with friends.

  Deborah Moggach

  Sister, Sibling, Love You

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• Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Sister, Brother, Sibling

  "Why we can never escape our siblings". Interview with Mandy Van Deven, www.salon.com. September 11, 2011.

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• Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and stand by you no matter what, and yet it's your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most.

  Lisa See

  Sister, Hurt, Love You

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• My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.

  Linda Sunshine

  Sister, Sibling, Needs

  Linda Sunshine (2012). “Mom Loves Me Best: (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister)”, p.44, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you've been bad and good.

  Linda Sunshine

  Funny, Sister, Sibling

  Linda Sunshine (2012). “Mom Loves Me Best: (And Other Lies You Told Your Sister)”, p.25, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

  Margaret Mead

  Relationship, Family, Sister

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Ellyn Sanna "Sisters by Birth Friends by Choice: All the Things I Love About You", June 2003.

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• You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.

  Deborah Moggach

  Sister, Memories, Sibling

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