Quotes About False Friendship

#1. 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

#2. Ford comes first before everything else I do in my life.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#3. Courage is never selfless.

Christopher Dutton

#4. I am bound by the laws of the United States and all 50 states ... I am not bound by any case or any court to which I myself am not a party ... I don't think the Congress of the United States is subservient to the courts ... They can ignore a Supreme Court ruling if they so choose.

Pat Robertson

#5. If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.

Isaac Asimov

#6. 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

#7. Actually, observed Lucette, wiping the long envelope which a drop of soda had stained,- Bergson is only for very young people or very unhappy people, such as this available rousse.

Vladimir Nabokov

#8. 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

#9. Don't bring negative to my door.

Maya Angelou

#10. 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

#11. The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#12. True friends esteem you of greater worth than you feel deserving.
False friends demand you prove that worth.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#13. 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

#14. It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#15. We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Mao Zedong

#16. In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#17. Convince people that you need them, and watch what they do.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#18. To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#19. If you refuse to change your job (if you don't like it), the only sensible thing you can do is practice loving it every day.

Wayne Dyer

#20. Deception' is the word I most associate with anorexia and the treachery which comes from falsehood. The illness appears inviting. It would seem to offer something to those unwary or unlucky enough to suffer from it - friendship, a get-out, or a haven - when, in fact, it is a trap.

Carol Lee

#21. If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

Marie De France

#22. I was proud to witness American Jewish organizations found the Save Darfur Coalition in June 2004 to mobilize a coordinated interfaith response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster.

Jan Schakowsky

#23. There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#24. Sometimes I want the friendship of a man but other times I only want his passion. Friendship can be false; passion never lies.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#25. If you love somebody, tell them. If there is conflict, let it go and fight instead for peace. Break the numb false silence and break the distance too. Laugh and cry and apologize and start again. This life is short and fragile but friendship is among the greatest miracles.

Jamie Tworkowski

#26. If you really want to be happy, nobody can stop you." ~Mary Trickey

Elizabeth SaFleur

#27. Even if you were taken out of school for want of money, Hugh. It's no excuse for false values. The world is full of poor people who understand that love and friendship are more important than riches - Maisie Greenbourne

Ken Follett

#28. 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

#29. No one ever knows if a book is good until they read the book.

Victor LaValle

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

Saib Tabrizi

#31. Inside the fogs, you think better and thus you see better!

Mehmet Murat Ildan