Friend Quotes

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

It's the classic story form. All staying equal, or proving equal, or being equal, this will all continue, and the next time around, we'll move on to see what happened to Harry after he dove in the river, or who his friend John really was, and so on.

A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.

I have never made a friend from whom I could not separate, and I have never made an enemy that I could not approach.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend - someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.

My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors.

Yeah, dog was this man's best friend, for sure.

I don't want to have a friend unless I can call them one of my best friends.

There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.

It's good to know you're working for someone you're familiar with, who's a friend and he has your back and you have his back also.

Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, patient.

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

I never go on Facebook! I like, haven't confirmed anybody to be my friend on Facebook. I have lots of friends; I'm just really bad at Facebook.

One, I had never worked with John Woo before and I wanted to see what that was like, and two, Ben Affleck is a friend, so it would be fun to work with him again.

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend.

You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.