Friends Quotes

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.

– Charles Lamb

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”

– C.S. Lewis

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

– Mencius

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare – and precious as a pearl.

– Tahar Ben Jelloun