False Friends Quotes

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  • Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.

    Lazy   Needs   Poverty  
  • False friends leave you in times of trouble.

    Albert Cullum, Aesop (1972). “Aesop in the afternoon”
  • If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

    People   May   Be Kind  
  • You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.

    Twitter post from Aug 30, 2013
  • Never take anything for granted.

    Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.25, Gerald Duckworth & Co
  • A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.

    Wife   House   Wicked  
  • False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

  • False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

  • Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs.

    "The Zahir". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2005.
  • Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care, but because they don't.

  • If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway

  • We must recognize the eloquence of our passions and refuse to be taken in. Instead of saying, 'That false friend always did despise me,' say: 'In my present state of agitation, I can't see clearly, I can't judge clearly; I am only a tragic actor who is declaiming for his own ears.' Then you will see the lights in the theater go out for lack of an audience, and the brilliant sets will be nothing more than painted cardboard.

    Taken   Passion   Light  
  • If wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lust of many harms is lurking in his eye; he hath a hollow heart; use him cautiously.

    Eye   Heart   Hands  
    Martin Farquhar Tupper (1857). “The Crock of Gold, and Other Tales”, p.106
  • Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.

    FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 23, 2011
  • This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.

  • A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

    Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.15, Courier Corporation
  • The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.

    Friendship   Needs   Way  
  • Success will win you false friends and true enemies - succeed anyway.

    Dance   Winning   Enemy  
  • If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.

  • A false friend, an unjust judge, a braggart, hypocrite, and tyrant, sincere in hatred, jealous, vain and revengeful, false in promise, honest in curse, suspicious, ignorant, infamous and hideous-such is the God of the Pentateuch.

    Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.428, Library of Alexandria
  • Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.

  • To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.

  • What greater wound is there than a false friend?

  • To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

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