Friendship Quotes
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These quotes are basically the word version of those friendship bracelets you made in sixth grade. Click on any friendship quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.
"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Author: Stephen Chbosky
"Are you gonna bark all day, little doggie, or are you gonna bite?"Source: Reservoir Dogs | Speaker: Mr. Blonde
"Because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you"Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony."Source: Ebony and Ivory | Speaker: Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder
"Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn"Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"He ain't mean," said Slim. "I can tell a mean guy from a mile off."Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."Source: The Remarkable Rocket | Author: Oscar Wilde
"I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George."Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"I get by with a little help from my friends."Source: With a Little Help from My Friends | Speaker: The Beatles
"I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature."Source: Northanger Abbey | Author: Jane Austen
"I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control."Source: Emma (1996 adaptation) | Speaker: Emma Woodhouse
"I never knew me a better time, and I guess I never will."Source: "Crocodile Rock" | Speaker: Elton John
"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good"Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Author: J.K. Rowling
"If I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble."Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."Source: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Author: J.K. Rowling
"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!"Source: The Wizard of Oz | Speaker: Dorothy, the Tin Man, and the Scarecrow
"No, Lennie, I ain't mad. I never been mad, and I ain' now. That's a thing I want ya to know."Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"Pleased to meet you. Hope you guess my name."Source: Sympathy for the Devil | Speaker: The Rolling Stones
"The hell with the rabbits. That's all you can ever remember is them rabbits."Source: Of Mice and Men | Author: John Steinbeck
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."Source: The Importance of Being Earnest | Author: Oscar Wilde
"Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair"Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."Source: In Memoriam | Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."Source: Wuthering Heights | Author: Emily Brontë
"Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past."Source: My Ántonia | Author: Willa Cather
"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald