Shakespeare Friendship Quotes & Sayings

That which I would discover
The law of friendship bids me to conceal. — William Shakespeare

We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936 — William Butler Yeats

So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem. — William Shakespeare

Friendship's full of dregs. — William Shakespeare

A noble shalt thou have, and present pay;
And liquor likewise will I give to thee,
And friendship shall combine, and brotherhood. — William Shakespeare

Friendship is full of dregs. — William Shakespeare

There is flattery in friendship - William Shakespeare — William Shakespeare

O, let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. — William Shakespeare

Who could refrain,
That had a heart to love, and in that heart
Courage to make love known? — William Shakespeare

Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide: in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked between son and father. This — William Shakespeare

If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart. — Mortimer J. Adler

This hand shall never more come near thee with such friendship — William Shakespeare

But in the beaten way of friendship what make you at Elsinore? — William Shakespeare

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end. — William Shakespeare

O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets! — Virginia Woolf

Thy friendship makes us fresh. — William Shakespeare

Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust encloased heare! Blest be the man that spares thes stones, And curst be he that moves my bones. — William Shakespeare

Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article.
Othello, Act III, Scene iii — William Shakespeare

Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love.
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues.
Let every eye negotiate for itself,
And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch
Against whose charms faith melteth into blood. — William Shakespeare

I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends. — William Shakespeare

I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul. — William Shakespeare

This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security. — William Shakespeare

Farewell, sweet playfellow. — William Shakespeare

Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. — William Shakespeare

Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly. — William Shakespeare

The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity. — William Shakespeare

We are advertis'd by our loving friends. — William Shakespeare

But hear thee, Gratiano:
Thou art too wild, too rude, and bold of voice -
Parts that become thee happily enough,
And in such eyes as ours appear no faults,
But where thou art not known, why, there they show
Something too liberal. — William Shakespeare

They love least that let men know their loves. — William Shakespeare

What do you want from me, Ambrose?" Fern cried from behind her hands. He pulled at her wrists, wanting to see her face as he laid it all on the line.
"I want your body. I want your mouth. I want your red hair in my hands. I want your laugh and your funny faces. I want your friendship and your inspirational thoughts. I want Shakespeare and Amber Rose novels and your memories of Bailey. And I want you to come with me when I go. — Amy Harmon

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. — William Shakespeare

These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend
no good to us: though the wisdom of nature can
reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself
scourged by the sequent effects: love cools,
friendship falls off, brothers divide: in
cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in
palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt son
and father. This villain of mine comes under the
prediction; there's son against father: the king
falls from bias of nature; there's father against
child. We have seen the best of our time:
machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all
ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our
graves. Find out this villain, Edmund; it shall
lose thee nothing; do it carefully. And the
noble and true-hearted Kent banished! his
offence, honesty! 'Tis strange. — William Shakespeare

If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not
As to thy friends; for when did friendship take
A breed for barren metal of his friend? — William Shakespeare

Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. — William Shakespeare

To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods. — William Shakespeare

There is flattery in friendship. — William Shakespeare

He that is thy friend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need:
If thou sorrow, he will weep;
If thou wake, he cannot sleep:
Thus of every grief in heart
He with thee doth bear a part.
These are certain signs to know
Faithful friend from flattering foe. — William Shakespeare

To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,
Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;
But where there is true friendship, there needs none. — William Shakespeare

Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee. — William Shakespeare

Who would be so mocked with glory, or to live
But in a dream of friendship,
To have his pomp and all what state compounds
But only painted, like his varnished friends? — William Shakespeare