his Valentine’s Day, show your friends the love they deserve! After all, they’re the ones who’ve been with you through thick and thin—both the good times and the bad ones—which is why they own a big piece of your heart. And if you’re not sure what to say, we’ve got the 100 best Valentine’s Day quotes for friends.
Whether you send a few hilarious Valentine’s Day quotes to your friends at work or find a sweet saying that’ll make your college bestie’s heart melt, adding some feel-good vibes to their V-day is just a small way you can show your appreciation.
100 Valentine’s Day Quotes for Friends
1. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”– Walter Winchell
2. “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
3. “A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.”– Unknown
4. “It’s always better when we’re together.” — Jack Johnson, “Better Together”
5. “Many people will walk in and out of your life but only true friends leave footprints in your heart.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
6. “True friendship is hating on everything together.” — Violet Benson
7. “A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
8. “A friend is someone you want to be around when you feel like being alone.” — Barbara Burrow
9. “Friends are the flowers in the garden of life.” — Unknown
10. “I love you so much. I hate everyone that isn’t you.” — Lena Dunham
11. “I already have a therapist. I have you.” — Unknown
12. “Whatever you do in this life, it’s not legendary unless your friends are there to see it.” — Barney Stinson
13. “Boyfriends come and go, but friends are forever!” — Unknown
14. “A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helps you create them.” — Unknown
15. “Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.”– Woodrow T. Wilson
16. “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.” — Jane Austen
17. “Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” – Jean de La Fontaine
18. “Friends are the siblings God never gave us.” – Mencius
19. “Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.” – Anna Taylor
20. “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” – Marcel Proust
21. “You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job. – Laurence J. Peter
22. “Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.” – Ed Cunningham
23. “Sometimes being with your best friend is all the therapy you need.” — Unknown
24. “The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
25. “The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” – Henry David Thoreau
26. “Ovaries before brovaries.” — Unknown
27. “Friends are the family you choose.” – Jess C. Scott
28. “F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Fight for you. Respect you. Include you. Encourage you. Need you. Deserve you. Stand by you.” – Unknown
29. “No friendship is an accident.” — O. Henry
30. “A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.” — Winnie the Pooh
31. “A sweet friendship refreshes the soul.” – Proverbs 27:9
32. “No road is long with good company.” — Turkish Proverb
33. “Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.” — Rabindranath Tagore
34. “Friendship is another word for love.” — Unknown
35. “True friends are families which you can select.” — Audrey Hepburn
36. “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.” – Wiliam Shakespeare
37. “In this lifetime, if there’s anything you need, it’s a best friend.” — Lea Michele
38. “Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys and dividing our grief.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
39. “Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.” – Tennessee Williams
40. “Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re always there.” — Unknown
41. “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
42. “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.” — Helen Keller
43. “Best friends can turn a horrible day into one of the best days of your life.” — Nathanael Richmond
44. “I get by with a little help from my friends.” — The Beatles
45. “Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life—and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.” — Dean Koontz
46. “True friends are those rare people who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light.” — Unknown
47. “To the world, you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.” – Brandi Snyder
48. “Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’” — C.S. Lewis
49. “Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.” — Virginia Woolf
50. “There is nothing better than a friend unless it is a friend with chocolate.” – Linda Grayson
51.”There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship” — Thomas Aquinas
52.“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” – Elie Wiesel
53.“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” —Lucius Annaeus Seneca
54. “Remember that life’s most valuable antiques are dear old friends.” — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
55. “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” – Henry Ford
56.“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.” ―
57. “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” ―
58. “There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” — Jim Henson
59.“A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”– Bernard Meltzer
60. “A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.” – Len Wein
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61. “A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself.” – Heidi Wills
62. “There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.” – Thomas Aquinas
63. “Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” — Muhammad Ali
64. “Real friends were the kind where you pick up where you’d left off, whether it be a week since you’d seen each other or two years.” — Jojo Moyes
65. “Ten minutes with a genuine friend is better than years spent with anyone less.” — Crystal Woods
66.“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” — Hubert H. Humphrey
67. “True friends are like diamonds — bright, beautiful, valuable and always in style.” – Nicole Richie
68. “True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” – David Tyson
69. “The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.” – Shanna Rodriguez
70. “Friendship’s the wine of life.” — Edward Young
71. “There are friends, there is family, and then there are friends that become family.” — Unknown
72. “There’s nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing.” — Jennifer Aniston
73. “True friendship is when two friends can walk in opposite directions, yet remain side by side.” — Josh Grayson
74. “We’re friends, real friends. And that means, no matter how long it takes, when you finally do decide to look back, I’ll still be here.” — Meredith Grey
75. “That’s the thing about friendship, it’s a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body.” — Owen Wilson
76. “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” ―
77. “A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.”– Arnold H. Glasgow
78. “Nobody can avoid falling in love. They might want to deny it, but friendship is probably the most common form of love.” — Stieg Larsson
79. “There’s no friend like someone who has known you since you were five.” — Anne Stevenson
80. “You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing.” — Charlotte
81. “Best friends are people who make your problems, their problems, just so you don’t have to go through them alone.” — Unknown
82. “I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.” — Roy Croft
83. “Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.” — Jean de la Fontaine
84.“A friend is what the heart needs all the time.” — Henry Van Dyke
85. “Friends are medicine for a wounded heart, and vitamins for a hopeful soul.” – Steve Maraboli
86. “It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”– Marlene Dietrich
87. “Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget.” — Unknown
88. “Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.” – Jacques Delille
89.”A true friend is for ever a friend.” — George MacDonald
90. “We’ll be friend ’til we’re old and senile. … Then we’ll be new friends!” — Anonymous
91. “Your best friend isn’t the person you call when you are in jail; mostly likely, she is sitting in the cell beside you.” — Irene S. Levine
92. “I keep telling myself to stop talking to weirdos but then I wouldn’t have any friends left.” – Unknown
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93. “I don’t know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn’t had my girlfriends.” – Reese Witherspoon
94. “A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have.” – Irish Proverb
95. “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” — Charles M. Schulz
96. “Friendship isn’t about who’m you’ve known the longest. It’s about who came and never left your side.” – Unknown
97. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”– Arnold H. Glasgow
98. “There’s nothing quite like the pain in your stomach from laughing too hard with your best friend.” — Unknown
99. “Sometimes me think, ‘What is friend?’ Then me say, ‘Friend is someone to share the last cookie with.’” — Cookie Monster
100. “Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.” — Wendi Deng Murdoch
