--- title: "9 Perfect friendship Quotes by 9 authors" description: "Browse 9 Perfect friendship quotes by 9 authors. Discover the best Perfect friendship sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57f/nishreen-2-99404_friend_perfect-friendship-is-imperfect-2642162_2642162.jpg" --- > [Perfect friendship is imperfect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nishreen-2/perfect-friendship-is-imperfect/) [Nishreen â¥](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nishreen-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57f/nishreen-2-99404_friend_perfect-friendship-is-imperfect-2642162_2642162.jpg) > [Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/charity-by-which-god-and-neighbor-are-loved-is-the-most-perfect/) [Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/745/thomas-aquinas-837_charity_charity-by-which-god-and-neighbor-are-lo_134313.jpg) > [Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/perfect-friendship-is-the-friendship-of-men-who-are-good-and-alike-in/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b24/aristotle-78_excellence_perfect-friendship-is-the-friendship-of_2705969.png) > [It's so ironic how best friends just slip and they become enemies so dang quick. One wrong phrase could cost 4 years,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blondie/it-s-so-ironic-how-best-friends-just-slip-and-they-become-enemies-so/) [Blondie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blondie/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68e/blondie-1496_best-friend_it-s-so-ironic-how-best-friends-just-sli_105904.jpg) > [We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/we-love-everything-on-our-own-account-we-even-follow-our-own-taste/) [Francois de La Rochefoucauld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e06/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld-1_accounts_we-love-everything-on-our-own-account-we_2317986.png) > [Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous. As it can only be preserved among estimable persons, it forces us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-therese-de-marguenat-de-courcelles/perfect-friendship-puts-us-under-the-necessity-of-being-virtuous-as/) [Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-therese-de-marguenat-de-courcelles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea2/anne-therese-de-marguenat-de-c_distress_perfect-friendship-puts-us-under-the-nec_2256488.png) > [Friends never cheat on each other, or take advantage, or lie. Friends do not spy on one another, yet they have no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-ambrose/friends-never-cheat-on-each-other-or-take-advantage-or-lie-friends-do/) [Stephen Ambrose](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-ambrose/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a7/stephen-ambrose-10501_advantage_friends-never-cheat-on-each-other-or-tak_1809291.jpg) > [“Those were the two prerequisites, in my conception, to perfect friendship: capacity to worship and capacity to laugh. Modern life is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-santayana/those-were-the-two-prerequisites-in-my-conception-to-perfect/) [George Santayana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-santayana/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d23/george-santayana-478_eternal-friendship_those-were-the-two-prerequisites-in-my-c_2645632.png) > [“In a perfect Friendship this Appreciative love is, I think, often so great and so firmly based that each member of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/in-a-perfect-friendship-this-appreciative-love-is-i-think-often-so/) [C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/279/c-s-lewis-121_appreciative_in-a-perfect-friendship-this-appreciativ_2523914.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/perfect-friendship/#itemlist", "name": "Perfect friendship Quotes", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Perfect friendship is imperfect.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Nishreen â¥" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nishreen-2/perfect-friendship-is-imperfect/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57f/nishreen-2-99404_friend_perfect-friendship-is-imperfect-2642162_2642162.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57f/nishreen-2-99404_friend_perfect-friendship-is-imperfect-2642162_2642162.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/57f/nishreen-2-99404_friend_perfect-friendship-is-imperfect-2642162_2642162.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Perfect friendship is imperfect.” — Nishreen â¥", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Aquinas" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/charity-by-which-god-and-neighbor-are-loved-is-the-most-perfect/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/745/thomas-aquinas-837_charity_charity-by-which-god-and-neighbor-are-lo_134313.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/745/thomas-aquinas-837_charity_charity-by-which-god-and-neighbor-are-lo_134313.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/745/thomas-aquinas-837_charity_charity-by-which-god-and-neighbor-are-lo_134313.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Charity, by which God and neighbor are loved, is the most perfect friendship.” — Thomas Aquinas", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Aristotle" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/perfect-friendship-is-the-friendship-of-men-who-are-good-and-alike-in/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b24/aristotle-78_excellence_perfect-friendship-is-the-friendship-of_2705969.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b24/aristotle-78_excellence_perfect-friendship-is-the-friendship-of_2705969.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b24/aristotle-78_excellence_perfect-friendship-is-the-friendship-of_2705969.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike…” — Aristotle", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It's so ironic how best friends just slip and they become enemies so dang quick. 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Sometimes he wonders what he is doing there among his betters. He is lucky beyond desert to be in such company. Especially when the whole group is together; each bringing out all that is best, wisest, or funniest in all the others. Those are the golden sessions; when four or five of us after a hard day's walk have come to our inn; when our slippers are on, our feet spread out toward the blaze and our drinks are at our elbows; when the whole world, and something beyond the world, opens itself to our minds as we talk; and no one has any claim on or any responsibility for another, but all are freemen and equals as if we had first met an hour ago, while at the same time an Affection mellowed by the years enfolds us. Life — natural life — has no better gift to give. Who could have deserved it?”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "C.S. 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