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. — Christian Nevell Bovee
What are friends? Friends are people you think are your friends but they really your enemies, with secret identities. — Eminem
Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you. — Dale Carnegie
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. — Sir Richard Francis Burton
Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and you think they are made of rock, then suddenly you realise they're only made of sand. — Maria Callas
Friends come and go but enemies accumulate. — Arthur Bloch
Choose your friends wisely-they will make or break you. — J. Willard Marriott
A good friend will always stab you in the front. — Oscar Wilde
Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you. — Yasser Arafat
What greater wound is there than a false friend? — Sophocles
Have no friends not equal to yourself. — Confucius
People bullshit and fakeness are the main reasons why I like to be alone. — Megan Fox
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
False Friends Quotes
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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. — Michael Bassey
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. — Mother Teresa
Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.
Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies. — Sara Shepard
Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex. — Jane Austen
It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is never known to anyone except to himself alone, hidden only God knows where. — James Clavell
Be with those who bring out the best in you, not the stress in you.
Times change, people change, thoughts about good and evil change, about true and false. But what always remains fast and steady is the affection that your friends feel for you, those who always have your best interest at heart. — Margot Frank
It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public. — George Berkeley
Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells in the soul, whose nourishment is the heart, whose wine is affection. Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah. — Kahlil Gibran
Sir, if you think that I am that kind of a man, you have missed your mark. I would rather die a thousand deaths than betray a friend or be false to duty. — Sam Davis
I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it. — Tupac Shakur
Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies. — Al Capone
I've invented Twofacebook, the antisocial network. You start being friends w/entire world & defriend people one by one. — Andy Borowitz
Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy. — Aeschylus
No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart. — Stephen King
In life you have a choice: Bitter or Better? Choose better, forget bitter. — Nick Vujicic
This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you. — Sophie Kinsella
We will always meet rivals in everything we do, but the most dangerous are those we believe to be our friends. — Paulo Coelho
And you don't have to care, so don't pretend. Nobody needs a best fake friend. — James Bay
…maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous….” - Zadie Smith — Zadie Smith
My life is a series of Hollywood orgies and Kabbalah center brunches with the cast of Friends. At least that's what my handlers tell me. I'm actually too valuable to live my own life and spend most of my days in a vegetable crisper to remain fake news anchor fresh. — Jon Stewart
Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care, but because they don't. — Jonathan Carroll
One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies... Be smart choosing your friends. — Ziad K. Abdelnour
Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself. — Aesop
Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend. — Jason Ritter
I'm always on the market for a new friend, period. As your success continues to grow, you start to see who your real friends are. But I'm always looking for wonderful people to have in my life that have no agenda and aren't fake friends. — Lady Gaga
Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends. — Michael Bassey
There will always be real friends and fake friends. It is difficult to distinguish the two because both will appear the same in the beginning but so different at the end. — Rita Zahara
You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were. — Jodi Picoult
I was something of a prankster. One time I put a ski mask on my head and used a fake gun on the school secretary so that I could get some of my friends out of detention. — Luke Perry
I'm getting less good at faking it. People in my family are noticing and asking what's wrong. My friends give me invitations to talk, to cry. I love them for their caring, but I want to run from it. I have lost their language, their facility with words that convey feelings. I am in new territory and feel like a foreigner in theirs. — Martha Manning
Fake friends believe in rumors. Real friends believe in you. — Yolanda Hadid
My real friends never hearin from me, fake friends write the wrong answers on the mirror for me — Drake
A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I would so much rather have a few of good friends than a lot of fake friends. — Lauren Conrad
I know amazing people in fashion who are anything but fake. They are very real and very sensitive. They are happy and sad. They are loyal friends. — Alber Elbaz
But there's the paradox of fiction - why do you cry when a fake character dies? It's the basis of art. You engage with people who don't exist and care about them as you would your friends and relatives. — Michael Gruber
I feel that we should always be a real friend, always, even to those who chose to be fake. Not because they are nice but because you are. — Rita Zahara
Well, this movie I've been working on for a while. I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when I was doing 'Empire of the Sun' in 1987 because at that time that's when all these Vietnam movies were being made and my friends and I were going on auditions for these Vietnam movies and my friends were getting them and going away to fake boot camps. — Ben Stiller
Everybody isn't your friend. Just because they hang around you and laugh with you doesn't mean they're for you. Just because they say they got got your back, doesn't mean they won't stab you in it. People pretend well. Jealousy sometimes doesn't live far. So know your circle. At the end of the day real situations expose fake people so pay attention. — Trent Shelton
incessant adj. The doubts. You had to save me from my constant doubts. That deep-seeded feeling that I wasn't good enough for anything I was a fake at my job I wasn't your equal my friends would forget me if I moved away for a month. It wasn't as easy as hearing voices nobody was telling me this. It was just something I knew. Everyone else was playing along but I was sure that one day they would all stop. — David Levithan
Friendship is the bestiest thing that comes to life . Friends will always be there for you don't worry about the fakes worry about the people who had your back from the start and never treated you wrong always remember they are your real friends don't never take them as granted because one day your going to lose a good friend by the way your action's are when you see a good friend stick to that person . — Marilyn Monroe
Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
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