14 Classic Literature Quotes About Friendship to Share With Your BFF

Friendship Quotes From Classic Literature, an image of four women standing together smiling outdoors, books
via Pexels

Celebrate your bestie!

Friendship Quotes From Classic Literature

You love your best friend and would do anything in the world for them. They're their for you through thick and thin and can always put a smile on your face even when you'd rather cry. Celebrate them with these 14 amazing friendship quotes from classic literature!

The wonderful think about classic literature is that there is always a quote for everything you need. Need a love quote? There are plenty. How about a quote about grief and loss? You're good to go. Nature, flowers, or weather? That too!

Quotes about friendship from classic literature are in the same exact boat! For this article, we rounded up beautiful quotes on friendship. Use them on Instagram in a selfie with with you BFF!

Great Friendship Quotes From Classic Literature

• "True friends are always together in spirit." -Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

• "For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother." -*The Odyssey by Homer

• "The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings." A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau

• "No friendship is an accident." -Heart of the West by O. Henry

• "Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love." Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Heartwarming Classic Literature Quotes About Friendship

• "We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over." Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

• "Friendship is constant in all other things." -Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

• "Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another 'What! You too? I thought that no one but myself.'" -The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis

• "You have been my friend," replied Charlotte. "That in itself is a tremendous thing." -Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

Lovely Friendship Quotes From Classic Literature

• "Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world." Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

• "I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen." Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

• ""I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam." -The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkein

• "There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature." Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

• "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival." -The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis

Let's Keep the Conversation Going...

What's your favorite classic literature quote about friendship?

Tweet us @womendotcom or follow us on Facebook and Instagram!