Being betrayed by anyone can really hurt, especially when you’ve entrusted someone with your secrets and feelings, but when it’s by someone who you thought of as a close friend, the betrayal can run a lot deeper than you might expect. Friends should be there through the good times and the bad, the happy and the sad, but when someone you trusted goes behind your back, it can be super hard to allow yourself to ever trust again.
Having a large social circle is meaningless if some of the people in it just gossip and laugh about when you’re not looking, but by weeding out the fakes early on, you can avoid a lot of heartache. This betrayal can happen to the best of us, though, and by reading these fake friends quotes, you can see that nobody is immune to the anguish that this particular brand of betrayal can bring.
Whether you are looking for words of comfort for a friend who is suffering (and if so, you can count yourself as a real friend), or you just want to feel less alone in your own grief, these fake friends quotes will show you that nobody is immune to this heartbreak. So, take a deep breath, hold your head high, and take stock of your circle and who deserves a place in it, and more importantly, who does not.
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Fake Friends Quotes
“Controllers, abusers, and manipulative people don’t question themselves. They don’t ask themselves if the problem is them…they always say the problem is someone else.” – Darlene Quimet
“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
“There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend.” – Wayne Gerard Trotman
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“Just like seasons, people also change. But the difference is, once gone, seasons come back.” – Himanshu Chhabra
“Fake people are like costume jewelry: they look great for a while, then all of a sudden, their true selves ‘Shine’ thru.” – Nitya Prakash
“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
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“Feigned interest is worse than brutal honesty.” – Stewart Stafford
“Letting go of toxic people in your life is a big step in loving yourself.” – Hussein Nishah
“Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.” – George R.R. Martin
“Incessant smiling is one of the deadly tools used by someone whose intent is to make others cry.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
“It may…be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.” – Mary Shelley
“We must learn to sanitize our environment from time to time to remove bad associates” – Victor Walsh Oluwafemi
“You are not really one of some of your friends’ friends.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“The word friend is a label anyone can try on. You decide who is best suited to wear it.” – Carlos Wallace
“Three belongings impoverish: love, hope and fake friendships.” – Tiziri Wuming
“Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
“Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.” – Sara Shepard
“As I get older, I realize just because I’m invited doesn’t mean I have to accept.” – Carlos Wallace
“It makes no sense to try to extend a friendship that was only meant to be a season into a lifetime.” – Mandy Hale
“Make sure the lions you roll with aren’t snakes in disguise.” – Genereux Philip
“Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. They pretend to be your friend first.” – Steve Irwin
“A friend to all is a friend to none.” – Aristotle
“If people are hating on you it’s often because they are: 1. Threatened by you, 2. Jealous of you or 3. Feeling like you’re above them so they put you down to feel better about themselves. The greatest people have haters for a reason, so take it as a compliment.” – Jeanette Coron
“When people smile at a rich man, they are smiling at his wallet.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
“Sometimes the person you’d take a bullet for ends up being behind the gun.” – Tupac
“It takes a special kind of person to be a hater, but only a true loser will give the impression of being your friend while resenting every progress/success in your life.” – Cory Stallworth
“I think the celebrities today, not all of them, but just the whole industry frustrates me because it is so fake. People pretend to be, a lot of the time, what they’re not.” – Tulisa
“Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.” – Ismail Haniyeh
“Not all toxic people are cruel and uncaring. Some of them love us dearly. Many of them have good intentions. Most are toxic to our being simply because…they aren’t inherently bad people, but they aren’t the right people for us. And as hard as it is, we have to let them go.” – Daniell Koepke
“You will never have to question the intentions or integrity of people who have your best interest at heart.” – Germany Kent
“We have to be cautious of who we allow in our circle because a frenemy can be more destructive than an enemy.” – Angel Moreira
“Having fake friends is like hugging cactus. The tighter you hug, the more pain you get.” – Riza Prasetyaningsih
“To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.” – Malcolm X
“We sometimes wish for the prosperity of someone who is secretly praying for our downfall.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.” – Aesop
“If you want to be my friend, I prefer honesty to fake praise.” – Christina Strigas
“Time passes and you begin to see, people for who they really are and not who they pretend to be.” – Scarlet Koop
“The most dangerous among us come dressed as angels and we learn too late they are the devil in disguise.” – Carlos Wallace
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” – Jane Austen
“Never give your attention to someone who deserves your silence.” – Emma Xu
“I would so much rather have a few of good friends than a lot of fake friends.” – Lauren Conrad
“Anyone can just speak words, but only one that is tried-and-true can mean them.” – Terry O’Neal
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” – Alice Walker
“We have to be cautious of who we allow in our circle because a frenemy can be more destructive than an enemy.” – Angel Moreira
“It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.” – Charles Kingsley
“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
“A fake friend indeed is a friend only in his need.” – Jagadeesh Kumar
“What greater wound is there than a false friend?” – Sophocles
“We teach people how to treat us.” – Dr. Phil
“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” – Plutarch
“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.” – Mineko Iwasaki
“True friends esteem you of greater worth than you feel deserving. False friends demand you prove that worth.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
“Fake people are like soap bubbles, they pop out when the sun shines brightly.” – Chiranjude Bird
“Fire false friends as early as possible. Do it before they dig out the dream seeds you’ve planted. The earlier, the better; the quicker, the safer.” – Israelmore Ayivor
“It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.” – Alfred Adler
“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.” – Jodee Blanco
“Some of my best friends never say a word to me.” – Emily Smallmon
“A genuine enemy is more useful than a fake friend.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“A friendship that can cease has never been real.” – St. Jerome
“In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is ‘in black and white,’ until later their true colors come out.” – Anthony Liccione
“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.” – William Penn
“You got nothing to lose. You don’t lose when you lose fake friends.” – Joan Jett
“You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people.” – Joel Osteen
“Trolls and haters are only distractions from your greater purpose. When you achieve your goals and success, not only will the trolls and haters be forgotten, but they will definitely be looked upon as the biggest fools.” – Kaitlin Gow
“Stop falling for those who won’t raise you up in the future.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
“Cut off fake people for real reasons, not real people for fake reasons.” – Ritu Ghatourey
“Goodbye is the best ever gift that you can receive from worse friends.” – Israelmore Ayivor
“Neither a fake friend nor a liar can be trusted, with a secret.” – Ellen J. Barrier
“Hatred imprisons the haters; love opens doors.” – Debasish Mridha
“Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.” – Aeschylus
“Convince people that you need them, and watch what they do.” – Wayne Gerard Trotman
“Sometimes it’s not the person who changes, it’s the mask that falls off.” – Mhaj Porras
“Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.” – George Washington Carver
“If you are not going to be a comfort, have the decency to be an empty space.” – Jennifer Crusie
“People wear masks of lies so that they look attractive, so be careful.” – Muhammad Saqib
“Real friends, are really hard to come by.” – Anthony Liccione
“What’s the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?” – Jess C. Scott
“Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.” – Waqar Ahmed
“One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies… Be smart choosing your friends.” – Ziad K. Abdelnour
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell
“You create more space in your life when you turn your excess baggage to garbage.” – Chinonye J. Chudolue
“You’ll be surrounded by many so-called well-wishers during your good times but there’ll be only a few ones around you in your bad times.” – Anurag Prakash Ray
“This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.” – Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic Ties the Knot
“Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth. Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.” – Aberjhani
“Fake friends often save you from being naive.” – Dr. P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
“If they talk about other people with you, they will talk about you with other people.” – Carlos Wallace
“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.” – Confucius
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasow
“The strong-minded rise to the challenge of their goals and dreams. The weak-minded become haters.” – Steve Maraboli
“You would always have undesired people around you but desired ones are least likely” – Pushpa Rana
“You should be aware of fake friends because it is the hardest to be aware of.” – Eraldo Banovac
“We would never become friends with most if not all of the people with whom we have been friends for many years, if we had met them only a few weeks ago.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“I hate those who play with feelings of others.” – Dominic Carey
“You don’t lose friends because real friends can never be lost. You lose people masquerading as friends, and you’re better for it.” – Mandy Hale
“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
“I can’t stand fake people. I can feel it when someone feigns it.” – Jacqueline Fernandez
“One of the main roles of our financial problems is to weed out our fake friends.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.” – Henry David Thoreau
“It’s funny how the people who know the least about you, always have the most to say.” – Auliq Ice
“Fake friends are with you today and against you tomorrow, whatever they say defines them not you .” – Shizra
“We never lose friends, fake ones are exposed.” – Carlos Wallace
“We never lose friends. We simply learn who the real ones are.” – Unknown
“Best friends has 11 letters, but so does Backstabber.” – Wiz Khalifa
“Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings, and emotions.” – Will Smith
“Fake friends get mad when we don’t pretend to like them.” – Carlos Wallace
“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
“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
“Eliminate those fake friends who seem real when you have something and disappear when you have nothing.” – Rashida Rowe
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” – William Blake
“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
“Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.” – Lauren Conrad
“Better an honest enemy than a false friend.” – German Proverb
“Traitors are more dangerous than enemies.” – Velupillai Prabhakaran
“No one forced you to love me, so why did you need to pretend? Your lies have left me heartbroken.” – Shami Paulin
“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
“It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it.” – Mandy Hale
“I think it’s better to have less friends than to have fake friends.” – Hina Khan
“You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.” – Jodi Picoult
“The best defence is to keep off the radar of negative people.” – Steven Redhead
“They’re not happy for you because they wish it was them.” – Carlos Wallace
“There should never be a time you make time for people who waste your time.” – Carlos Wallace
“Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.” – Ashleigh Brilliant
“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard
“life is too short for fake butter or fake people.” – Karen Salmansohn
“A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.” – Benjamin Franklin
“The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.” – Heather Brewer
“Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.” – Shania Twain
“At some point you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life.” – Sandi Lynn
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasow
“Betray a friend and you’ll often find you have ruined yourself.” – Aesop
“Lovers have a right to betray you, friends don’t.” – Judy Holliday
“The only wolves we got to fear are the ones that wear manskin.” – George RR Marin
“As far as I’m concerned, all politicians are fake people.” – Neil Sedaka
“A fake friend is an enemy in disguise.” – Ellen J. Barrier
“Someone who smiles too much with you can sometimes frown too much with you at your back.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
“There are folks you just don’t need. You’re better off without them. Your life is just a little better because they ain’t in it.” – William Gay
“You can’t always go by actions because some people will ACT like they love you just to get what they want from you.” – Sonya Parker
“People bullshit and fakeness are the main reasons why I like to be alone.” – Megan Fox
“Spend your time with those who love you unconditionally, not with those who only love you under certain conditions.” – Suzy Kassem
“Being fake in life is going to attract you fake reactions, fake crap, and fake friends. Just be real with yourself and others and things will be fine.” – Derrick Robinson
“Learn to use the criticism as fuel and you will never run out of energy.” – Orrin Woodward
“The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.” – Chris Jammi
“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.” – Rita Zahara
“Fake love is to money what fire is to hay, there only remain ash when it is over” – Bangambiki Habyarimana
“I love fake people provided they are mannequins.” – Pushpa Rana
“False friends leave you in times of trouble.” – Aesop
“The real friends are out there on your own, on your lost and on your special days. If they aren’t there, take it like they aren’t your friends, find other friends.” – Deyth Banger
“Most people want to see you to do better, but not doing better than them.” – London Mond
“Be very careful of who you share your problem with, remember that not every friend that smiles at you is your best friend.” – Kemmy Nola
“Pretend to be poor in reality and you’ll notice a decrease in your friends list and request.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
“One should have the ability to distinguish between real and fake. Specially Real and Fake Love.” – George Femtom
“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Fake people have an image to maintain, real people just don’t care.” – Hachiman Hikigaya
“Because I hate fake people and I always think I’m never fake.” – Victoria Jackson
“Money and power attract friends. But it’s not you they’re friends with – just your money and power. Only affection brings genuine friends. — Auliq” – Ice
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Those are awesome, deep, inspiring and profound. Some of the best I have heard when it comes to relationships. I needed those.