Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
— Jeremy Taylor
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
I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.
— Jennifer Aniston
Matching tattoos don't ensure the longevity of a friendship, any more than any other mutual hardship.
— Jenna Wortham
To me, Green Arrow in the past, what people loved about Oliver Queen pre-New 52 was his relationships with other heroes. Like his friendship with Green Lantern, his animosity with Hawkman, his romance with Black Canary - these are all the things that sort of defined him.
— Jeff Lemire
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.
— Jean de La Fontaine
Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.
— Jean de la Bruyere
The truths are universal: Every kid knows fear. Every kid knows family and friendship. Loss, love, laughter. Everything else is just detail.
— Jason Reynolds
The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
— Jasmine Guy
Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously.
— Jane Green
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
— Jane Austen
I went to boarding school in the country, so there's no real differentiation between family and friends. I went there from when I was 8 until I was 17 - it was insane. If you earn my friendship, you are my family, and I'll do anything for you.
— Jamie Campbell Bower
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
— James F. Byrnes
One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love, and friendship.
— Jacqueline Leo
I met Adrienne Bailon a bit over two years ago, we worked together and became friends. Our circles connected and we remained good friends. From a friendship, as two single adults we have very recently begun to explore a dating relationship.
— Israel Houghton
I think 'Pose' is unique in that it's not just a trans story - it's about family. It's about love. It's about friendship and acceptance and really deconstructing humanity, and the ethical side of that, with how we treat people who are different than us.
— Indya Moore
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
Love is friendship set on fire.
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.
Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.
A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.
— Jena Malone
Richard Donner's friendship and guidance showed me that there's more to life than being an actor.
— Jeff Cohen
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.
— Jean Cocteau
I want people to have learned from me. When you watch movies that we grew up on, they teach you life lessons about friendship, brotherhood, integrity, but it's still funny and something you can watch as a family. I want to bring that back to our culture in general.
— Jason Mitchell
The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that's really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff.
— Jared Kushner
I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
— James Whistler
It will give them the opportunity to show themselves worthy of the respect and friendship of peace-loving nations, and in time, to take an honorable place among members of the United Nations.
During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
— J. Paul Getty
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
What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
— Ian Mckellen
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
I've always wanted to be a mom because I want to give a kid all of the magical gifts my mom gave to me, such as love and friendship. She and I had this incredible connection that was so unbelievable.
— Jennifer Love Hewitt
It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.
— Jennifer Beals
Best-friend tattoos require so much prep work, which adds to their legitimacy. First, a friendship must be deep enough to warrant the rite; then the perfect symbol must be found to forge the bond.
People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People are busting each other's chops, and it's a sign of affection, truly. It's a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit 'em hard.
— Jeff Ross
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Love and friendship exclude each other.
I came to know Gore Vidal in the mid-1980s, when I was living in southern Italy, virtually a neighbour, and our friendship lasted until his death in 2012. Needless to say, he was a complicated and often combative man.
— Jay Parini
I think faith helps me a lot. God wants you to be where He wants you to be, and that's where I want to be. If I do not get a part, I understand that maybe I needed to be home at that time, maybe in school; there's always a reason. My faith is also where my core friends are, at my church, a faith-based friendship.
— Jason Dolley
Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.
— Jane Harrison
I didn't like England. I couldn't take the look of the place or the style of friendship. I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren't understood. I had to put a big lid on myself.
— Jane Campion
Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
I am thrilled to receive the Sondheim Award from the wonderful Signature Theatre. I have already received the invaluable gift of over twenty-five years of collaboration and friendship with Steve. Now I get to have his award, too!
— James Lapine
Friendship is such an important thing to me, and I feel like the people who I love and help keep me whole - I can't imagine a life without them.
— Jacqueline Woodson
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'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
— Irvin D. Yalom
My social media world is detached from my friendship world. I'll have friends in real life that I don't follow on social media, because I don't really look at social media as the way of connecting to friends. For me, social media is like a business tool.
— Ian Harding
