Honest Friends Quotes:

To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.

- Sophocles

source: Sophocles (2013). “Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus”, p.100, University of Chicago Press

topic: Friendship, Honest, Honest Friends

I can always get along with an honest friend.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Honesty, Honest, Honest Friends

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Travel, True Friend Is, Being A True Friend

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

- Robert Breault

topic: Lying, Real, Cherish, Wonderful Friendship, Friendship Garden

An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.

- E. W. Howe

topic: Wise, True Friend, Answers, Friendship Over, Honest Friends

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

- Walter Winchell

source: Walter Winchell (1975). “Winchell exclusive: "things that happened to me--and me to them”

topic: Friendship, Real, World, Making Friends, New Friendship

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones

- John Lennon

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend, Bff, Special Friend

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

- Henri Nouwen

source: "Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life". Book by Henri Nouwen, 1974.

topic: Love, Friendship, Pain, Bff, Female Friends

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

topic: Friendship, Demand, Honest, Honest Friends

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Friendship, Nature, Integrity, Inspirational Friendship, Honest Work

I think brutal honesty is extremely important. Don't be afraid of being up-front about your feelings and your life. I'd rather be an honest friend than a phony lover.

- Minka Kelly

topic: Honesty, Thinking, Feelings, Brutal Honesty, Honest Friends

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Best Friend, Bff, Songs And Friendship

A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

- Donna Roberts

topic: Friendship, Song, Memories, Bff, Songs And Friendship

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Makin Money, Bff

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Friendship, Best Friend, Positive, Bff, Songs And Friendship

Best friends listen to what you don't say.

- Samantha Norman

topic: Friendship, Making Friends, Bff, Anon, Cute Friendship

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Believe, Book, Learning, Honest Friends

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Peace, Honesty, War, Limiting Government, Interventionism

When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.

- Nicole Richie

topic: Design, Looks, Asking, Honest Friends