Friendship quotes

“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays, First Series — Friendship · View source

“I can no other answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks.”

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night, Act 3, Scene 3 · View source

“Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters?”

Confucius

Analects, Book 1 (Xue Er) · View source

“Within the four seas, all are brothers.”

Confucius

Analects, Book 12 (Yan Yuan) · View source

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays, First Series — Friendship · View source

“Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.”

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Sonnet 116 · View source

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep.”

William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2 · View source

“Doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.”

William Shakespeare

Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2 · View source

“Journeys end in lovers meeting.”

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 3 · View source

“I do love nothing in the world so well as you. Is not that strange?”

William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing, Act 4, Scene 1 · View source

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humour.”

Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol, Stave Three · View source

“I would not wish any companion in the world but you.”

William Shakespeare

The Tempest, Act 3, Scene 1 · View source