Sister Quotes
A special collection of sister quotes for some of the most important people in your life.
While they can hit your hot buttons quicker than anyone, they always have your back.
Check out this collection of thoughtful words.
Best Sister Quotes
1.) Because of you, I laugh a little harder, cry a little less, and smile a lot more.
Unknown
2.) No one will ever be as entertained by us as us.
Unknown
3.) Always better together.
Unknown
4.) Of two sisters, one is always the watcher, one the dancer.
Louise Glück
5.) Sisters function as safety nets in a chaotic world simply by being there for each other.
Carol Saline
6.) As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.
Patti Smith
7.) When I say I won’t tell anyone, my sis doesn’t count.
Unknown
8.) A sister is God’s way of proving He doesn’t want us to walk alone.
Unknown
Good Sister Quotes
9.) This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and stand by you no matter what, and yet it’s your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most.
Lisa See
10.) A sister is both your mirror – and your opposite.
Elizabeth Fishel
11.) There’s nobody in the world that knows me better than my sister.
Tia Mowry
12.) I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.
Emily Dickinson
13.) She’s a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.
Unknown
14.) Acquaintances were always on their best behavior, but sisters loved each other enough to say anything.
Lauren Weisberger
Beautiful Quotations on Sisters
15.) Sisters: different flowers from the same garden.
Unknown
16.) Sometimes I open my mouth, and our Mother comes out.
Unknown
17.) “Sister” is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
Margaret Mead
18.) We’ll always fight, but we’ll always make up as well. That’s what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other’s frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we’ve had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time.
Lisa See
Sis Sayings
19.) For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
Christina Rossetti
20.) Side by side or miles apart, we’re best friends connected by the heart.
Unknown
21.) There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.
Bruce Schneier
22.) A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.
Marion C. Garretty
23.) I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother, and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life.
Darren Aronofsky
24.) What’s the good of news if you haven’t a sister to share it?
Jenny DeVries
25.) Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
Benjamin Disraeli
See Sibling Quotations.
Funny Sister Quotes
26.) If you don’t understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.
Linda Sunshine
27.) Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.
Pam Brown
28.) I really do love my sister. Especially when she’s nice.
Stephen Chbosky
29.) The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Oscar Wilde
30.) I smile because you are my sister, I laugh because there is nothing you can do about it!
Unknown
31.) Sis: Sometimes it’s better than being a princess.
Unknown
Humorous Sister Quotes
32.) We stick together like fat thighs.
Unknown
33.) Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.
Charles M. Schulz
34.) Bless you, my darling, and remember you are always in the heart – oh tucked so close there is no chance of escape – of your sister.
Katherine Mansfield
35.) I can’t remember if I’m the good Sister or the evil one.
Unknown
36.) In the cookies of life, sisters are the chocolate chips.
Unknown
37.) If your sister is in a tear, hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she’s wearing your best sweater.
Pam Brown
Sister-in-Law Quotations
38.) If you want to know how old a woman is… ask her sister-in-law.
E. W. Howe
39.) Like this night has just changed how much I really trust and rely on her.
Unknown
40.) I love you more than I’ve ever found a way to say.
Unknown
41.) She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don’t know a better person.
Oprah Winfrey
42.) Without you, I’m like a bird without wings.
Unknown
Big Siblings Quotes
43.) I always like to win. But I’m the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don’t have anything. It’s hard. I love her too much. That’s what counts.
Venus Williams
44.) It’s so hard to be a big sister. I’m like a younger version of my Mom. I love my sister-in-law. Like this night has just changed how much I really trust and rely on her.
Unknown
45.) My first job is a big sister, and I take that very seriously.
Venus Williams
46.) My older sister is bossy, my brother is a stirrer and me – well, I am perfect!
Jenny Éclair
47.) Behind every little sister, there’s a sibling standing behind her holding a bat saying, You wanna say that again?
Unknown
48.) An older sister is a friend and defender – a listener, conspirator, a counselor, and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.
Pam Brown
49.) I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.
Jill Abramson
50.) I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.
Unknown
51.) A toast once heard: To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I’d found my first.
Robert Breault
Sisterhood Quotes
52.) Helping one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.
Louisa May Alcott
53.) Because there’s one thing stronger than magic: sisterhood.
Robin Benway
54.) Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.
Nellie L. McClung
55.) Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.
William Cobbett
56.) She just gets it.
Unknown
57.) So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet a union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.
William Shakespeare
58.) We’re connected as women. It’s like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there’s trouble, we all know it, but most of the time, we’re just too scared, selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don’t help each other, who will?
Sarah Addison Allen
My Sister, My Best Friend
59.) Sisters make the best friends in the world.
Marilyn Monroe
60.) Having a sister is like having a best friend you can’t get rid of. You know, whatever you do, they’ll still be there.
Amy Li
61.) We acquire friends, and we make enemies, but our sisters come with the territory.
Evelyn Loeb
62.) She is your mirror, shining back at you with a world of possibilities. She is your witness, who sees you at your worst and best, and loves you anyway. (And) She is your partner in crime, your midnight companion, someone who knows when you are smiling, even in the dark.
Barbara Alpert
63.) To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confidant… it is to have a soul mate for life.
Victoria Secunda
64.) Sisters touch your heart in ways no other could. Sisters share… their hopes, their fears, their love, everything they have. Real friendship springs from their special bonds.
Carrie Bagwell
All in the Family Quotations
65.) A sister smiles when one tells stories – for she knows where the decoration has been added.
Chris Montaigne
66.) More than Santa Claus, your sister knows when you’ve been bad and good.
Linda Sunshine
67.) Never let an angry sister comb your hair.
Patricia McCann
68.) There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.
Mary Montagu
69.) The loveliest thing I know is… My sister.
Lord Byron
70.) A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.
Isadora James
71.) Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams, and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.
Toni Morrison
72.) You can kid the world, but not your sister.
Charlotte Gray
73.) Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister?
Alice Walker
74.) We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don’t judge.
Adriana Trigiani
Thoughtful Sister Quotes
75.) A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves—a special kind of double.
Toni Morrison
76.) When traveling life’s journey, it’s good to have a sister’s hand to hold on to.
Unknown
77.) Help one another is part of the religion of sisterhood.
Louisa May Alcott
78.) Joy and laughter or tears and strife, holding hands tightly as we dance through life.
Suzie Huitt
79.) You know full well as I do the value of sisters’ affections; there is nothing like it in this world.
Charlotte Bronte
80.) That’s the best thing about little sisters: They spend so much time wishing they were elder sisters that in the end they’re far wiser than the elder ones could ever be.
Gemma Burgess
81.) But the love of sisters needs no words. It does not depend on memories, or mementos, or proof. It runs as deep as a heartbeat. (And) It is as ever present as a pulse.
Lisa Wingate
Lighthearted Sister Quotes
82.) A sister is like yourself in a different movie, a movie that stars you in a different life.
Deborah Tannen
83.) She is your teacher, your defense attorney, your personal press agent, even your shrink. Some days, she’s the reason you wish you were an only child.
Barbara Alpert
84.) What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention?
Claire Cook
85.) Sisters are best friends, they are advisors, they are teachers, and best of all they are people with whom you can talk with about anything—someone you have a special bond with!
Catherine Pulsifer
86.) One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself.
Betsy Cohen
87.) My sister…is the person who keeps me in line, whether I like it or not. I trust her and also have a good, healthy fear of her.
Katy Perry
Sister Bond
88.) Nobody fights you like your own sister; nobody else knows the most vulnerable parts of you and will aim for them without mercy.
Jojo Moyes
89.) We have our own unspoken language — a look that makes one of us fall on the floor laughing or the slight inflection in our voice that conveys everything…Someone who sees you exactly as you are and thinks that is enough.
Barbara Bush
90.) A sister is a special type of angel on earth who brings out your best qualities.
Unknown
91.) Sisters share a bond unlike any other — thornier but also tender, full of possibility.
Joy McCullough
92.) Sisters don’t need words—we’ve already got our own language of eye rolls, sighs, winks, laughs, and screams.
Unknown
Short Sister Quotes
93.) Look inside any sister relationship, and you’ll find a wealth of interesting stories.
Colleen Sell
94.) One’s sister is part of one’s essential self, an eternal presence of ones’ heart, soul and memory.
Susan Cabil
95.) Sister is our first friend and second mother.
Sunny Gupta
96.) Sisters will always love you tomorrow, no matter what you do today.
Marinela Reka
97.) There’s no better friend than a sister.
Mary Engelbreit
98.) A sister is a dearest friend, a closest enemy, and an angel at the time of need.
Debasish Mridha
99.) The best thing about having a sister was that I always had a friend.
Cali Rae Turner
100.) A sister is one of the greatest gifts your heart will ever know.
Unknown
Sister Quotes On Love
101.) When I was a child, I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.
Denzel Washington
102.) The mildest, drowsiest sister has been known to turn the tiger if her sibling is in trouble.
Clara Ortega
103.) My sister and I are so close that we finish each other’s sentences and often wonder whose memories belong to whom.
Shannon Celebi
104.) You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts. You need her, as she needs you…
George R.R. Martin
105.) Sisterly love is, of all sentiments, the most abstract. Nature does not grant it any functions.
Ugo Betti
106.) I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.
James Boswell
107.) I know my sister like I know my own mind/You will never find anyone as trusting or as kind…I love my sister more than anything in this life, and I will choose her happiness over mine every time.
Hamilton
Famous Sisters
- Abby Van Buren and Anne Landers
- Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen
- The Dionne Quintuplets
- The Kardashians
- Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret
- Emily and Zooey Deschanel
- The Gabor Sisters
- Malia and Sash Obama
By Michael O’Halloran
Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought over 75 new gift and toy products to market, most of which deal with wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
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