I don’t have friends. I have partners. Boardwalk Empire s4e12: Farewell Daddy Blues, Nucky, HBO 2013
Let’s be frank here. You never wanted my friendship. The Godfather 1972 starring Marlon Brando & Al Pacino & James Caan & Richard S Castellano & Richard Duvall & Sterling Hayden & John Marley & Richard Conte & Diane Keaton et al, director Francis Ford Coppola, Don
He taught me in this room, he taught me keep your friends close but your enemies closer. The Godfather II 1974 starring Robert De Niro & Al Pacino & Robert Duvall & Diane Keaton & Talia Shire & Morgana King & John Cazale & Marianna Hill & Lee Strasberg et al, director Francis Ford Coppola, Michael
The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends. The Godfather III 1990 starring Al Pacino & Andy Garcia & Diane Keaton & Talia Shire & Sofia Coppola & George Hamilton & Bridget Fonda et al, director Francis Ford Coppola, Don Altobello
Jim hasn’t got any friends. Rebel Without a Cause 1955 starring James Dean & Natalie Wood & Sal Mineo & Jim Backus & Ann Doran & Corey Allen & William Hopper & Rochelle Hudson & Edward Platt & Nick Adams et al, director Nicholas Ray, Father to rozzer
I don’t want to make friends. ibid. Jim in planetarium
Remember this, boys: you gotta have friends. The Public Enemy 1931 starring James Cagney & Jean Harlow & Edward Woods & Joan Blondell & Donald Cook & Leslie Fenton & Beryl Mercer & Robert Emmett O'Connor et al, director William A Wellman, Paddy Ryan
We are your friends, Angela. Whether you like it or not. Married to the Mob 1988 starring Michelle Pfeiffer & Matthew Modine & Dean Stockwell & Mercedes Ruehl & Paul Lazar & Alec Baldwin & Joan Cusack & Ellen Folley & Oliver Platt et al, director Jonathan Demme, Mob chick
What friends? I’ve got no friends. Hell is a City 1960 starring Stanley Baker & John Crawford & Donald Pleasence & Maxine Audley & Billie Whitelaw & Joseph Tomlty & George A Cooper & Vanda Godsell et al, director Val Guest, Jakes
Above all, don’t make any friends, Jack. The American 2010 starring George Clooney & Violante Placido & Thekla Reuten & Paolo Bonacelli & Irina Bjorklund & Johan Leysen, director Anton Corbijn, boss to assassin
When you can’t tell your friends from your enemies, it’s time to go. Quantum of Solace 2008 starring Daniel Craig & Olga Kurylenko & Judi Dench & Mathieu Amalric & Giancarlo Giannini & Gemma Arterton & Jeffrey Wright & Anatole Taubman & Jesper Christensen & Rory Kinnear et al, director Marc Forster, M
Camille Montes: Friend of yours?
James: I don’t have any friends. ibid.
You can’t play your friends like marks, Hooker. The Sting 1973 starring Paul Newman & Robert Redford & Robert Shaw & Charles Durning & Ray Walston & Eileen Rennan & Harold Gould & John Hefernan & Dana Elcar & James Sloyan & Larry D Mann & Sally Kirkland & Jack Kehoe & Robert Earl James et al, director George Roy Hill, Henry to Johnny
I never knew what a friend was until I met Geordi. He spoke to me as though I were human. He treated me no differently from anyone else. He accepted me for what I am. And that, I have learned, is friendship. But I do not know how to say goodbye. (Star Trek: The Next Generation s5e24: The Next Phase, Data
What if you had to choose sides? Just remember who your friends are. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s1e18: Dramatis Personae, Kira to Odo
Never place friendship above profit: 21st Rule of Acquisition. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s2e7: Rules of Acquisition, Ferengis in spaceship
I don’t need anyone to choose my friends for me. Star Trek: Voyager s1e1: The Caretaker I, Harry to Tom
I would like the record to show that I have lost a good friend as well. One I could never replace. Star Trek: Voyager s3e15: Coda, Tuvok of Janeway
I lost closer friends than darling Georgie the last time I was deloused. Blackadder Goes Forth: Plan E – General Hospital, Blackadder to Nurse, with George & Baldrick, BBC 1989
He wasn’t my house captain; he was my friend. Aces High 1977 starring Christopher Plummer & Malcolm McDowell & Simon Ward & Peter Firth & David Wood & John Gielgud & Trevor Howard & Richard Johnson & Ray Milland & Christopher Blake & David Daker et al, director Jack Gold, McDowell
Therapist: What’re friends for?
King: I wouldn’t know. The King’s Speech 2011 starring Colin Firth & Geoffrey Rush & Guy Pearce & Helena Bonham Carter & Timothy Spall & Derek Jacobi & Jennifer Ehle & Anthony Andrews & Claire Bloom & Eve Best & Freya Wilson & Tim Downie & Roger Hammond & Michael Gambon et al, director Tom Hooper
Friendship ... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything. Muhammad Ali
Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day. George Foreman
Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. Casablanca 1942 ***** starring Humphrey Bogart & Ingrid Bergman & Paul Henreid & Claude Rains & Conrad Veidt & Sydney Greenstreet & Peter Lorre & Curt Bois et al, director Michael Curtiz, Rick
Money can’t buy you friends but you do get a better class of enemy. Spike Milligan, attributions & variations, viz Wikiquotes unsourced
Posh people can afford to have more friends. Al Murray: The Pub Landlord: My Gaff, My Rules, London’s Playhouse Theatre
Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. George Eliot
Friendships begin with liking or gratitude – roots that can be pulled up. George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
A friend in need is a friend indeed. Mid-11th century proverb
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. William Wycherley
There is something I want. A friend. Companion. A female. Someone like me. So she won’t hate me. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 1994 starring Robert deNiro & Kenneth Branagh & Helena Bonham Carter & Ian Holm & Rory Jennings & Tom Hulce & John Cleese & Aidan Quinn & Richard Briers & Robert Hardy & Christina Cutall & Celia Imrie & Cherie Lunghi & Charles Wyn-Davies & Richard Bonneville et al, director Kenneth Branagh
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. John Churton Collins
I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend. Abraham Lincoln
You’re the only friend I got. Isn’t that a remarkable thing? Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman 2006 starring Xavarian Dramatic Society, Warren Able Theatre starring Daniel Valez & Amanda Magnavita & Michael Longo & Michael Maldonado et al, Willy to Charley
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is. Jim Morrison
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle
What a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies. Gore Vidal, Sunday Times Magazine 16th September 1973
I never was attached to that great sect,
Whose doctrine is that each one should select
Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend,
And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend
To cold oblivion. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Epipsychidion, 1821