Shakespeare Quotes on Friendship

But where there is true friendship, there needs none

— Timon of Athens, Act 1 Scene 2, LINE 17; TIMON

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

— Antony and Cleopatra, Act 2 Scene 6, LINES 117-19; ENOBARBUS TO MENAS

That which I would discover / The law of friendship bids me to conceal

— Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act 3 Scene 1, LINES 4-5; PROTEUS TO THE DUKE OF MILAN

Friendship is constant in all other things / Save in the office and affairs of love

— Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Scene 1, LINES 166-67; CLAUDIO

Thy friendship makes us fresh

— 1 Henry VI, Act 3 Scene 3, LINE 6; CHARLES TO THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY

Keep thy friend / Under thy own life’s key.

— All's Well That Ends Well, Act 1 Scene 1, LINES 65-66; COUNTESS OF ROSSILLION TO BERTRAM

I count myself in nothing else so happy / As in a soul remembering my good friends

— Richard II, Act 2 Scene 3, LINES 46-47; BOLINGBROKE TO PERCY

Most friendship is feigning, most loving is folly

— As You Like It, Act 2 Scene 7, LINE 186; AMIENS

There is flattery in friendship

— Henry V, Act 3 Scene 7, LINES 111-12; CONSTABLE TO ORLEANS

To me, fair friend, you never can be old

— Sonnet 104, Line 1