True Friendship Quotes - Page 8

• False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

  Richard Burton

  Friendship, Fake Friends, Fake People

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• To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,
  Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;
  But where there is true friendship, there needs none.

  William Shakespeare

  Sorry, True Friend, Real

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.156, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Agreement in likes and dislikes - this, and this only, is what constitutes true friendship.

  Catiline

  Friendship, True Friend, Real

  "Sallust: The War with Catiline. The War with Jugurtha". Book by Sallust, translated by J. C. Rolfe, Book XX, part 4, 2013.

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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

  True Friend, Party, Struggle

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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, True Friend

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• Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.

  Mariella Frostrup

  True Friend, Giving, Challenges

  "Should I cut an old friend out of my life?" by Mariella Frostrup, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2013.

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• We may never be able to pay directly for the gifts of true friendship - but pay we must, even though we make our payment to someone who owes us nothing, in some other place and at some other time.

  Yousuf Karsh

  True Friend, May, Pay

  Yousuf Karsh (2003). “Karsh: A Biography in Images”, Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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• If you loved once, and if you cared once, you never really stop. And if you build a true foundation, a true friendship, that never really goes away.

  Wilmer Valderrama

  True Friend, Foundation, If You Care

  Source: perezhilton.com

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• The more we seek exclusivity in friendship, the more it becomes obligatory and the less likely it is to fulfill the wonderful vision of what true friendship can be.

  Harriet Lerner

  Friendship, True Friend, Vision

  Harriet Goldhor Lerner (1996). “Life preservers: staying afloat in love and life”

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• Opposition is true friendship.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Artist, Opposition

  William Blake, Michael Mason (1998). “Selected Poetry”, p.83, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence true Friendship is the least jealous of loves. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, "Here comes one who will augment our loves." For in this love "to divide is not to take away.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Blessed, Jealous

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• The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can appreciate your happiness - celebrate your happiness, even when she's not necessarily happy herself.

  Sarah Jio

  True Friend, Appreciate, Rough Patches

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• Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.

  Vera Nazarian

  True Friend, Essence, Long

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• The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Friendship, True Friend, Growth

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2009). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.36, Broadview Press

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• We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Loneliness, Silence

  "The Weight of Glory". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1949.

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• True friendship resists time, distance and silence.

  Isabel Allende

  True Friend, Distance, Silence

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• True friendship can exist only between equals.

  Plato

  True Friend

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