True Friendship Quotes: Updated 2020

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship. Thomas Aquinas

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. Jean de La Fontaine

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. Henry David Thoreau

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. St. Jerome

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. Charles Caleb Colton

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing. Baltasar Gracian

I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship. Harbhajan Singh

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. George Washington

The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship. Suzanne Brockmann

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means. Charles Kingsley

Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want. Sabrina Bryan

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

Opposition is true friendship. William Blake

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. David Storey