William Shakespeare Quotes About Friendship

• Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Best Friend, Family

  William Shakespeare, Thomas PRICE (Late Chaplain in H.M. Convict Establishment at Woolwich.) (1839). “The Wisdom and Genius of Shakspeare; comprising moral philosophy, delineations of character, paintings of nature and the passions, and miscellaneous pieces ... With ... notes, and Scriptural references ... by the Rev. T. Price”, p.394

• Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Wine, People

  1613 Guildford. Henry VIII, act 1, sc.4, l.6-7.

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

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Loss, Thinking

  Sonnet 30

• Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Memorial Day, Wall

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

• I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Being Happy, Real Friends

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 3, l. 46

• Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Money, Important

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

• These violent delights have violent ends.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Romeo And Juliet Love, Delight

  1595 Friar Laurence. Romeo andJuliet, act 2, sc.5, l.9.

• All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Birthday, Men

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 139

• Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Memorial Day, Peace

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 1, l. 1

• 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

  Friendship, Real Friends, Adoption

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

• A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Real, Bears

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 85

• 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

  Friendship, Jesus, Tombstone

• Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first: anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England Can advise me like you: be to yourself As you would to your friend.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Horse, Men

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1715, BookCaps Study Guides

• Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends; that the property of rain is to wet and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Art, Philosophy

  William Shakespeare (1820). “Select Plays of William Shakespeare: In Six Volumes. With the Corrections & Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added, Notes”, p.66

• O no, thy love though much, is not so great, It is my love that keeps mine eye awake, Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, To play the watchman ever for thy sake. For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere, From me far off, with others all too near.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Eye, Play

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.28, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Friendship, Valentines Day

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 1, l. [184]

• They love least that let men know their loves.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Friendship, Men

  William Shakespeare, Libby Appel, Michael Flachmann (1982). “Shakespeare's Lovers: A Text for Performance and Analysis”, p.57, SIU Press

• Friendship is full of dregs.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Dregs

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.64

• Friendship's full of dregs.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Dregs

  William Shakespeare, George Somers Bellamy (1875). “The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations: (With Marginal Classification and Reference.)”, p.64

• Most friendship is faining, most loving mere folly:
  Then, heigh-ho, the holly.
  This life is most jolly.

  William Shakespeare

  Friendship, Hollies, Life Is

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