Top 44 Friends False Quotes
#1. They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors.
Jack Cade
#2. He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.
Charles Caleb Colton
#4. Folded hands may conceal a dagger --
Likewise a foe's tears.
Thiruvalluvar
#5. True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.
Seth Brown
#7. True friends esteem you of greater worth than you feel deserving.
False friends demand you prove that worth.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#8. If the portraits of our absent friends are pleasant to us, which renew our memory of them and relieve our regret for their absence by a false and empty consolation, how much more pleasant are letters which bring us the written characters of the absent friend.
Heloise D'Argenteuil
#9. The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.
Nicolas Chamfort
#11. Whatever you believe to be true and false, that proclaim to be true and false; whatever you think admirable and beautiful, that should be your model, even if all your friends and all the critics storm at you as a crotchet-monger and an eccentric.
George Henry Lewes
#12. When I was a little girl everyone made fun of me and calling me awful names.Also saying i'm ugly and now i'm starting to believe it,because I can't seem to find a man that wants me so I go around the internet with a friends spreading false dating rumors on them being with me.
Genevieve Cortese
#13. It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.
George Berkeley
#14. Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
E.B. White
#15. As I look back on it, I'm glad that I had this false image. I was who everyone else - my parents, my friends, society - wanted me to be. I was a pleaser, someone who wanted to make everyone happy, to not let anyone down. Now, I'm not like that.
Natalie Portman
#16. 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
#17. Be careful in your relations with those in power; they draw you close or allow you to approach them only when they need you. They are your friends when your friendship is useful to them and affords them pleasure, but they forget you when you are in trouble.
Elie Wiesel quoting Rabban Gamliel
Elie Wiesel
#18. If you are successful, you will win some false friends & some true enemies: Succeed anyway
Mother Teresa
#19. I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil.
C.S. Lewis
#20. Flee flattery, false praise and fair weather friends
Fraser Young
#21. Success will win you false friends and true enemies - succeed anyway.
Mother Teresa
#22. It is politics to please and hoodwink those
Who flatter but despise us.
Thiruvalluvar
#23. Nothing is more false and more indiscreet than always to want to choose what mortifies us in everything. By this rule a person would soon ruin his health, his business, his reputation, his relations with his relatives and friends, in fact every good work which Providence gives him.
Francois Fenelon
#24. 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
#25. The touchstone of false friends is the day of need: by way of proof, ask a loan from your friends.
Saib Tabrizi
#26. Friends in the Dharma, be satisfied with your own heads. Do not put any false heads above your own. Then, minute after minute, watch your step closely.
Nyogen Senzaki
#27. Every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence which would endure as long as she was faithful to those ideals and which she would as certainly lose if she were ever false to them.
L.M. Montgomery
#28. A man has a false heart in his mouth for all the world to see, another in his breast to show all his special friends and his family, and the real one, the true one, the secret one, which is not known to anyone except himself alone.
James Clavell
#29. It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend.
Acharya Mahapragya
#30. Water! pretending to be pure, thou resemblest false friends. Thou art warm at the top and cold at bottom.
Victor Hugo
#31. My work has made me tolerant of memory mistakes by family and friends. You don't have to call them lies. I think we could be generous and say maybe this is a false memory.
Elizabeth Loftus
#32. 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
#33. 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.
C.N. Bovee
#34. Don't look for false friends. Let true friends find you.
Patrick Grant
#35. What are a few false promises among friends, angel?"
"They're the difference between you and me ... that's what they are."
Vernon Kraft meets Ajax in The Ragtime Coven, coming soon!
Bruce Jenvey
#36. Fans can sometimes develop a false sense of relationship with celebrities simply because they know so much about them. But real friends are more than just fans. And real disciples have an actual relationship with the Lord. They know his voice.
Richard Jacobson
#37. Prince William's smiling hostility toward the press is his non-negotiable core value. I am told he is so protective of his privacy he has been known to plant false tips with friends he distrusts and watch the media to see if they play out.
Tina Brown
#38. I shall simply say that those who offer false consolation are false friends.
Christopher Hitchens
#40. But sometimes in the midst of worry, anxiety and hard work, it has been pretty hard to bear all these false reports going about the country - to see my friends alienated and being made to believe things that were absolutely false.
John Harvey Kellogg
#41. 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.
Khalil Gibran
#42. I look back at Danny and I think about what Ginny said to me: Friends act like friends. My stomach tightens.
A.S. King
#43. False friends leave you in times of trouble.
Aesop
#44. There is no such thing as false or real hope. Hope is the brain's natural mood stabilizer. And an illusory friend that gives hope and eases the struggle of one's daily life, is much better than all the living friends who just ain't bothered.
Abhijit Naskar
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