True Friend Quotes - Page 13

• A true friend is someone who says nice things behind your back.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Nice, Inspiration, Behind Your Back

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• If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Friendship, Beloved, Possession

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• To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.

  Sarah Ellis

  Friendship, Feelings, Complacency

  "Pictures of Private Life, Vol. 2". Book by Sarah Stickney Ellis, 1835.

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• The best part about having true friends is that you can go months without seeing them and they'll still be there for you and act as if you'd never left!

  Ariana Grande

  Friendship, Months, Stills

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• A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Possession, True Friend Is

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• Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Party, Struggle, Love Is

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• A messy house is a must - it separates your true friends from other friends. Real friends are there to visit you not your house!

  Jennifer Wilson

  Real, Visits You, House

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• With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Friendship, Peace, Foundation

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• But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Friendship, Men, Trials

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2010). “Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience Illustrated”, p.164, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.

  Mary Schmich

  Archivists, True Friend Is, Biographers

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• It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.

  William Banting

  Exercise, Old Friends, Weight

  William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.12

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• There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.

  Connie Francis

  Italian, Chance, Restaurants

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• You can never lose a true friend.

  Sable

  Friendship, Loses

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• If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Friendship, Selfish, Lovers

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.55

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• You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Love You, Opposites, People

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• I think love and friends are two things that you don't chase. True love and true friends come.

  Toni Gonzaga

  Thinking, Two, Two Things

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• I consider myself to be a true friend of the Israeli people. But I define friendship as someone who takes care of a friend, who just doesn't use or exploit a friend. And, you know, there's that old adage: 'Friends don't let friends drive drunk'.

  Scott Ritter

  People, Drunk, Use

  Speech at New York Ethical Culture Society, 2006.

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• Most of us know someone who would say, 'If you want to be my friend, you'll have to accept my values.' A true friend doesn't ask us to choose between the gospel and his or her friendship. ... A true friend strengthens us to stay on the strait and narrow path.

  Robert D. Hales

  Want, Path, Accepting

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• I don't believe that there is any true friendship without a bond of honor, and the honor in friendship is the respect you give the other that she also gives you.

  Dorothy Allison

  Believe, Giving, Honor

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• On the moral plane, true friends enjoy the same protection as the sense of smell confers upon dogs. They scent the sorrow of their friends, they divine its causes, and they clasp it to their minds and hearts.

  Honore de Balzac

  Friends, Dog, Heart

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• The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's.They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence.

  Walt Disney

  Trust, Dream, Self Confidence

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.55, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.

  Herman Melville

  Relation, Reciprocal, Amity

  Herman Melville (2006). “Selected Poems (Melville, Herman)”, p.138, Penguin

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• The one true friend I thought I'd found, tonight the bottle let me down.

  Merle Haggard

  Friendship, Bottles, Tonight

  Song: Tonight, The Bottle Let Me Down

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• True friendships don't fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

  Kent McCord

  Hollywood, Myth, Shows

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• If you're going to think mean things about me or not be a true friend, then we don't need to be friends.

  Kay Panabaker

  Mean, Thinking, Needs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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