Samuel Johnson Quotes on Friendship (18 Quotes)

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

My Dear Sir Are you playing the same trick again, and trying who can keep silence longest Remember that all tricks are either knavish or childish and that it is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity o

I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

So many qualities are indeed requisite to the possibility of friendship, and so many accidents must concur to its rise and its continuance, that the greatest part of mankind content themselves without it, and supply its place as they can, with intere.

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.

It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship

Friendship, peculiar boon of Heaven, The noble mind's delight and pride, To men and angels only given, To all the lower world denied.

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliate the other's failings because they are his own.

Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship

Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.