False Friends Quotes

• 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 Nestell Bovee

  Friendship, Fake Friends, Fake People

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• You got nothing to lose. You don't lose when you lose fake friends.

  Joan Jett

  Friends, Fake People, Nothing To Lose

  Twitter post from Aug 30, 2013

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• 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.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Cheer, True Friend

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 23, 2011

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• 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.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don't care, but because they don't.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Fake People, Giving Up, Care

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

  Mother Teresa

  Dance, Winning, Enemy

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• This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Fake Friends, Secret, Use

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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.

  Michael Bassey

  Lazy, Needs, Poverty

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

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Friendship, Fake Friends

  Benjamin Franklin (2012). “Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Never take anything for granted.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thankful

  Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.25, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.

  Sara Shepard

  Fake Friends, Fake People, Sleep

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• 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.

  Richard Burton

  Friendship, Fake Friends, Fake People

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• If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  People, May, Be Kind

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• What greater wound is there than a false friend?

  Sophocles

  Greater, Wounds

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

  Mother Teresa

  Successful, Winning, Enemy

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Laughter, Laugh Often, Enthusiasm

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Cheer, True Friend, Supportive

  "The Zahir". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2005.

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• False friends leave you in times of trouble.

  Aesop

  Hypocrisy, Trouble, Times Of Trouble

  Albert Cullum, Aesop (1972). “Aesop in the afternoon”

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• The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Friendship, Needs, Way

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• 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

  God, Religious, Hypocrite

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.428, Library of Alexandria

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• 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.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Eye, Heart, Hands

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1857). “The Crock of Gold, and Other Tales”, p.106

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• A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.

  Chanakya

  Wife, House, Wicked

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• 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.

  Emile Chartier

  Taken, Passion, Light

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