True friendship Quotes

“The reward of friendship is itself. The man who hopes for anything else does not understand what true friendship is.”

“Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.”

“Alain Badiou was once seated amongst the public in a room where I was delivering a talk, when his cellphone (which, to add insult to injury, was mine -- I had lent it to him) all of a sudden started to ring. Instead of turning it off, he gently interrupted me and asked me if I could talk more softly, so that he could hear his interlocutor more clearly . . . If this was not an act of true friendship, I do not know what friendship is. So, this book is dedicated to Alain Badiou.”

“False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.”

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”

“True friendship is self-love at second hand.”

“… it is that such of us as have loved deeply have learnt many secrets that are unknown to others; for thousands and thousands of things quiver in silence on the lips of true friendship and love, that are not to be found in the silence of other lips, to which friendship and love are unknown. …”

“True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.”

“The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.”