Friendship Quotes

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

- Charles Lamb

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

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

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

- Gloria Naylor

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

- David Tyson