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All you need to Know about Quotes About Friendship

Friendship provides a lot of inspiration and subjects for quotes, and we love collecting quotes about friendship on this site. Below are some of the questions that we frequently get asked about friendship quotes.

If you’re just interested in the quotes themselves, then check out the side bar to see a full list of all the Friendship quotes that we have on the site.

Frequently Asked Questions About Friendship

Which authors have written about Friendship?

Throughout the years, a lot of writers have written on the subject of friendship. But everyone has to have their favorites, and at Quotation Oasis, we particularly like the Friendship quotes written by these authors

  • Aristotle
  • Cicero
  • Montaigne
  • Shakespeare
  • Jane Austen
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Henry David Thoreau
  • Mark Twain
  • CS Lewis
  • JRR Tolkien
  • Virginia Woolf
  • EM Forster
  • John Steinbeck
  • Maya Angelou
  • Toni Morrison
  • Alice Walker
  • Stephen King
  • John Green
  • Elena Ferrante
  • Zadie Smith

We are always trying to add new quotes to the site, so please keep checking back for new friendship quotes from the authors above and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you’d like to see more friendship quotes from a particular author on the site.

Which themes are most often covered in quotes about Friendship?

The good thing about friendship quotes is that they can cover such a broad range of topics and themes, but some of our favorite topics and themes that friendship quotes cover are -

  • Loyalty
  • Trust
  • Support
  • Laughter
  • Memories
  • Forgiveness
  • Understanding
  • Communication
  • Kindness
  • Empathy
  • Acceptance
  • Encouragement
  • Gratitude
  • Growth
  • Adventure
  • Time
  • Distance
  • Differences
  • Unconditional love
  • Shared experiences

What are some of the best and most popular quotes about Friendship?

There are so many great quotes about friendship, but we’ve picked out some of our favorites below. We hope you enjoy them.

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Elbert Hubbard

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

A true friend is someone who is there for you when they'd rather be anywhere else.
Len Wein

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali

A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.
Unknown

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. Wilson

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King Jr.