The world is a lovely place. We all meet different people. Be it work, education, social get-together or other places. As a human being, we are bound to connect with others. Some become close to our hearts and bring happiness.
But sometimes people are not what they pretend to be. Such false friends break your trust and betray you, reveal your hidden secrets and stab you in the back. Are you hurting from such a fake friendship? Are you trying to fix your broken heart, and bring back the positive in your life? Check out these honest fake friends quotes and quotes on fake relationships.
Fake Friends Quotes
1.“Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
2.“Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hour. True friends are like stars, you don’t always see them but they are always there.” – Habeeb Akande
3.“Time alone can prove the worth of friendship. As time goes by we lose the false ones and keep the best. True friends stay when all the rest are gone.” – Ritu Ghatourey
4.“I’ve got more respect for someone who comes out and says they don’t like me than for the ones who act like they do but talk bad about me when I’m not around.” – Mitchell Perry
5.“Looking for your knife? You should try my back, that’s where I’ve last seen it.” – Unknown
6.“Some friends are like pennies, two-facedtwo-faced and worthless.” – Unknown
7.“Fake friends are like autumn leaves, they’re scattered everywhere.” – Unknown
8.“The word ‘Best friends’ has 11 letters, but so does ‘Backstabber’.” – Wiz Khalifa
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9.“We will always meet rivals in everything we do, but the most dangerous are those we believe to be our friends.” – Paulo Coelho
10.“Buy a gift for a dog and you will be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if you don’t have anything to offer it, it won’t even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
11.“True friends will always find a way to help you. Fake friends will always find an excuse.” – Unknown
12.“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 Johnson
13.“Be careful who you trust because as quickly as they say they’re your friend is how quick they can turn their backs on you.” – Abhishek Tiwari
14.“One fake friend can do more damage than five enemies.” – Unknown
15.“A fake friend likes to see you do well, but not better than them.” – Unknown
16.“True friends cry when you leave. Fake friends leave when you cry.” – Unknown
17.“Fake people are only nice when it’s convenient for them or they usually have a hidden agenda. Genuinely nice people go out of their way to help others and they have an honest heart. Stick with the ones who never let you down and keep their promises. You can’t fake that.” – Unknown
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18.“What a desperate, pathetic fool I was. Time after time, my “friends” had shown me their true colors. Yet, I still wanted to believe they were sorry for causing me pain. p. 128” – Jodee Blanco
19.“Fake friends; those who only drill holes under your boat to get it leaking; those who discredit your ambitions and those who pretend they love you, but behind their backs they know they are in to destroy your legacies.” – Israelmore Ayivor
20.“Make sure the lions you roll with aren’t snakes in disguise.” – Genereux Philip
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21.“If they talk about other people with you, they will talk about you with other people.” – Carlos Wallace
22.“Always be careful of your friend who loves your enemy; you either trust such a fellow for your life or for your death!” – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
23.“A genuine enemy is more useful than a fake friend.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
24.“Being too nice is a crime today. Fake friends are everywhere around you. they will use you and when you are of no use, throw you away like a wrapper.” – Shizra
25.“A Fake Friend is an enemy in disguise.” – Ellen J. Barrier
26.“Once your blood’s in the water, everyone’s a shark.” – Tilly Bagshawe
27.“Fake friends are with you today and against you tomorrow. Whatever they say defines them not you.” – Shizra
28.“You get to know who your true friends are, because there will be lots of them around when times are easy. and when times get so tough. they will leave you no matter how.” – Marouane Laassafar
29.“You should be aware of fake friends because it is the hardest to be aware of.” – Eraldo Banovac
30.“Neither a fake friend nor a liar can be trusted, with a secret.” – Ellen J. Barrier
31.“Some of the most poisonous people come disguised as friends and family.” – Unknown
32.“People’s bullshit and fakeness are the main reasons why I like to be alone.” – Unknown
33.“Fake people have an image to maintain; Real people just don’t care.” – Unknown
34.“I may not be perfect, but at least I am not fake. With me, what you see is what you get.” – Unknown
35.“You cannot always trust what you see. Even salt looks like sugar.” – Unknown
36.“Some people will stab you in the back and then ask you why you are bleeding.” – Unknown
37.“Sometimes it is not that people change, it is just that the masks have fallen off.” – Unknown
38.“It is not my role to expose the fake people. In due time, they will expose themselves for who they really are.” – Unknown
39.“There are a lot of fake people out there in the world. Before you judge them, make sure that you are not one of them.” – Unknown
40.“These days, fake people no longer surprise me but loyal people do.” – Unknown
41.“Real recognizes real while fake flocks together.” – Unknown
42.“I would rather have honest enemies than fake friends.” – Unknown
43.“Be careful who you show your weaknesses too. Some people will jump at the chance to use them against you.” – Unknown
44.“The saddest thing about betrayal is that it will never come from your enemies. It always comes from people who were thought to be your friends.” – Unknown
45.“Better an honest enemy than a false friend.” – Unknown
46.“A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.” – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
47.“Better to have an enemy who slaps you in the face than a friend who stabs you in the back.” – Unknown
48.“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.” – Buddha
49.“A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.” – Benjamin Franklin
50.“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
51.“Before you count your friends, make sure you can count on them. Some friends are only around when they want something from you but are never there when you need something from them.” – Rashida Rowe
52.“Some people aren’t loyal to you. They are loyal to their need of you. Once their needs change, so does their loyalty.” – Unknown
53.“Sometimes it’s not the person who changes, it’s the mask that falls off.” – Mhaj Porras
54.“Eliminate those fake friends who seem real when you have something and disappear when you have nothing.” – Rashida Rowe
55.“Some people forget about you, until they want something from you” – Unknown
56.“Watch who you call friend, because friends are the same ones that will leak your business to everyone after yall not friends anymore.” – Ritu Ghatourey
57.“Don’t mind the backstabber, you’re always ahead of them. That’s why they’re at your back.” – Unknown
58.“People wears a mask of a lie so they look attractive, so be careful.” – Muhammad Saqib
59.“Before you go. I would like you to take this knife out of my back. You’ll probably need it again.” – Unknown
60.“Dear two-faced friend, I can’t seem to decide which face of yours to slap first.” – Unknown
61.“A true person’s colors will always show within time. You may be fooled for the moment but be patient and see what happens.” – Unknown
62.“The fakest people are the ones that brag about being real.” – Unknown
63.“No, don’t even approach me. I am severely allergic to fake people.” – Unknown
64.“It is hard to deal with someone who smiles and pretends to like you to your face and sticks that eight-inch blade in your back when you turn around.” – Nishan Panwar
65.“As we grow up, we realize it becomes less important to have a ton of friends, and more important to have real ones.” – Unknown
66.“Fake friends are like leeches, they stick to you till they sucked the blood and life out of you.” – Unknown
67.“Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.” – Sara Shepard
68.“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.” – Unknown
69.“At the end of the day real situations expose fake people so pay attention.” – Trent Shelton
70.“Don’t be fooled by their mask. Fake people eventually show their true colors. Just wait until their mask needs cleaning.” – Unknown
71.“Some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.” – Chuck Palahniuk
72.“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.” – Unknown
73.“God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.” – Unknown
74.“I’m not crying because of you; you’re not worth it. I’m crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.” – Steve Maraboli
75.“They can betray me but I choose not to betray my peace of mind.” – Dodinsky
76.“Fools take a knife and stab people in the back. The wise take a knife, cut the cord, and set themselves free from the fools.” – Unknown
Conclusion
While a fake friend might leave you hurt and regret, hope you can learned from above fake friends quotes. Because these quotes on fake friends teach you a lot – don’t trust others blindly.
Recognize your true friends and cherish them, and stay away from manipulative and backstabbing people. It teaches that you can’t control the people around you. But you can definitely control whom you will allow in your life.
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