“I’m friends with Taylor Swift, and I am tired of people asking me questions about our friendship. When I post a picture of us on Instagram, I’m posting a picture of me and my friend.”
— Sarah Hyland
“I probably like being isolated more than many people do, but I’m lucky to have the friendship of many fine people, and they keep me from becoming very isolated. The world of my mind is certainly a populated and warm place, too. It’s difficult for me to become too isolated with such resources.”
— Jesse Ball
“People of noble character are afraid of keeping friendship with dishonorable people. But people of discreditable character consider friendship with the dishonorable as a blood relationship.”
— Thiruvalluvar
“Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty – attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.”
— Bradley Chicho
“Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet’ner of life, and solder of society.”
— Robert Blair
“I am aloof by nature. I mind my own business. I’m good with everyone, and I get along fine with people. But work is work, and friendship is friendship. I never mix the two.”
— Sonakshi Sinha
“All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.”
— Sallust
“My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.”
— Georg Brandes
“I think I’d probably be really good friends with Hulk Hogan. I think we’d get along, and I’d, like, chill him out because he’d be all rambunctious and rowdy, and I’d be like, ‘Chill out, Hulk Hogan. Everything will be okay.’ And he’d be like, ‘Thanks, Ron.’ And then we’d form a friendship.”
— Ron Funches
“Whether it’s music, loss of something, loneliness or friendship – if that emotion is heightened in some way and painted to fit in between the covers of 32 pages, that can become a picture book.”
— Chris Raschka
“I didn’t have any Indigenous friends until I was in my 30s, and I’ll always remember and be inspired by the remarkable friendship I had with Connie Bush, an outstanding Indigenous leader from Groot Eylandt on who was on the National Women’s Advisory Council with me.”
— Quentin Bryce
“When I was working on my first novel, ‘The Quilter’s Apprentice,’ I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women’s friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other.”
— Jennifer Chiaverini
“Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.”
— Greg Bear
“Friendship has its illusions no less than love.”
— Stendhal
“All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.”
— Sallust
“Your Majesty may rest assured about my conduct towards the Comtesse de Provence; I will certainly try and gain her friendship and confidence, without going too far.”
— Marie Antoinette
“That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.”
— Francis Quarles
“It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.”
— Gilbert Parker
“I told God, ‘I don’t want a man. I don’t want more gold albums. The only thing I want is the love, friendship, and presence of my mother.’ And God gave it to me.”
— La India
“Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while Elizabeth offered Mary the loyal, steadfast friendship she craved but had always found so elusive.”
— Jennifer Chiaverini
“One of the great things personally coming to Hawai’i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.”
— Dan Fouts
“I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don’t know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.”
— Marion Cotillard
“The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.”
— Sallust
“Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.”
— Anita Brookner
“People instantly assume you can’t have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. – or America.”
— Isabel Lucas
“But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.”
— June Jordan
“If the food of friendship is time together, how do we make the time to ensure we’re all fed? My friends and I have recently come across a way to keep each other close. It fits into our lifestyles despite busy schedules and a surfeit of children. We call it the ‘kibbutz.’”
— Nir Eyal
“But as I was saying, from my experiences, I think men tend to be more timid in expressing their feelings for you. Regardless, I always prefer a friendship first and foremost.”
— Alicia Machado
“Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.”
— J. Donald Walters
“I definitely have guys that I’m friends with that I have a crush on, and you don’t want to ruin the friendship.”
— Miranda Cosgrove