Bad Friend 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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• Better a good enemy than a bad friend.

  Plato

  Enemy, Good Enemy

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• 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

  Jealousy, Fake Friends, Fake People

  FaceBook post by Trent Shelton from Nov 05, 2013

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• No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.

  Stephen King

  Fake People, Heart, Good Friend

  Stephen King (1987). “It: 2”, Signet

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• If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success.

  Will Smith

  Inspiring, Trust, Inspiration

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• Bad friends could ruin your whole life. Be wise when it comes to choosing your friends. You set the standard. You be the one who stands strong. Don't be a follower.

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Wise, Strong, Followers

  Robin Jones Gunn (1998). “A Whisper and a Wish”, Bethany House Pub

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• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Depressing

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.251, Univ of California Press

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• Do not put your trust in a bad companion nor even trust an ordinary friend, for if he should get angry with you, he may bring all your secrets to light.

  Chanakya

  Light, Secret, Ordinary

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  Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.

  Al Capone

  Best Friend, Fake Friends, Inspirational Friendship

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• Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Funny, Friendship, Football

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

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  No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

  Alice Walker

  Friendship, Fake Friends, Memorable

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• Friends are just enemies who don't have enough guts to kill you.

  Judy Tenuta

  Friendship, Anger, Enemy

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• There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for (Bob) Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me ... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.

  Bing Crosby

  Friendship, Funny Friend, Negative

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• I travel 250 days a year. There are chef friends who I only see every couple of years. By conventional standards I'm a bad friend. I'm not there to remember your birthday or to offer you words of support through Twitter. I'm not up on what you're doing in New York because I'm not in New York. I'm not what people call in parenting circles "present."

  Anthony Bourdain

  New York, Couple, Years

  Interview with Andrew Friedman, toqueland.com. May 2, 2014.

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• Friends. They aren’t any such thing as good friend or bad friend. Maybe there are just friend. People who stand by you when you're hurt and who helped you feel not so lonely. Maybe there are worth being scared for and hoping for and living for. Maybe worth dying for too. If that what has to be. No bad friends. Only people you want. Need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.

  Stephen King

  Lonely, Hurt, Heart

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 12, 2014

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• A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

  Anton Chekhov

  Friendship, Sex, Men

  'Uncle Vanya' (1897) act 2

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• He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

  Sophocles

  Loyalty

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• But as you age, you lose other, even more important things, like friends-hopefully only bad friends, who maybe weren't as good for you as you once thought. With luck, you'll be able to hang on to your true friends, the ones who were always there for you....even when you thought they weren't. Because friends like that are more precious then all the tiaras in the world

  Meg Cabot

  True Friend, Luck, Important

  Meg Cabot (2016). “Crowning Glory”, p.307, Pan Macmillan

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• A good friend and a bad friend are like a perfume-seller and a blacksmith: The perfume-seller might give you some perfume as a gift, or you might buy some from him, or at least you might smell its fragrance. As for the blacksmith, he might singe your clothes, and at the very least you will breathe in the fumes of the furnace.

  Muhammad

  Best Friend, Good Friend, Smell

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• He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.

  Joseph Joubert

  Beauty, Beautiful, Heart

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.61

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• I've noticed your hostility towards him... I ought to have guessed you were friends.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Friendship, Funny Friend, Emotional

  Malcolm Bradbury (2011). “The History Man”, p.87, Pan Macmillan

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• Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.

  Henry Fielding

  Pain, Men, Forever

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.1840, Delphi Classics

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• You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend.

  Ann Patchett

  Husband, Writing, Good Person

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think it's really hard to work in a city where you live too, because I get so absorbed with the movie that I become a bad friend and a bad participant in my own life.

  Greta Gerwig

  Thinking, Cities, Where You Live

  Source: collider.com

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• We get through life and this is part of the education process also. In real life, we meet bad bosses and good bosses and good friends and bad friends. I think we should let the teachers do their work and not impose too much stuff on them.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Teacher, Real, Good Friend

  Source: collider.com

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