William Shakespeare Friendship Quotations

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.

These violent delights have violent ends.

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.

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

We are advertis'd by our loving friends.

They love least that let men know their loves.

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.

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.

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

This world to me is like a lasting storm,Whirring me from my friends.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Friendship is full of dregs.

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

Friendship's full of dregs.

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.

A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.

The 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-hatched unfledged comrade.

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.