Best +400 Betrayal from Fake Friends Quotes

This post contains some of the best betrayal from fake friends quotes.

Betrayal from Fake Friends Quotes

1. “A competitive and insecure woman will tell you that “true love” is never giving up on someone you’re in love with. A confident and spiritual woman knows that “moving on” doesn’t mean you never loved someone. She realizes that letting go is what God needs her to do because both your happiness and hers requires taking different journeys for spiritual growth. Letting go is sometimes the hardest thing, but it is the most “real love” you will ever experience.” ― Shannon L. Alder

2. “A fake friend indeed is a friend only in his need.” – Jagadeesh Kumar

3. “A fake friend is an enemy in disguise.”- Ellen J. Barrier

4. “A fake friend is someone that ridicules your feelings, steps on your emotions, and gossips about you behind your back.” – Karon Waddell

5. “A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.” – Benjamin Franklin

6. “A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.” – William Shakespeare

7. “A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard

8. “A friend is with you in the sunshine and the darkness; a fake friend is one who is only there for the sunshine.” – Catherine Pulsifer

9. “A friend to all is a friend to none.” – Aristotle

10. “A friend to all, is not a friend to anyone.” – Mike Skinner

11. “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

12. “A friendship that can cease has never been real.” – St. Jerome

13. “A genuine enemy is more useful than a fake friend.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

14. “A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.”- Criss Jami

15. “A lot of problems in the world would disappear if we talk to each other instead of about each other.” – Unknown

16. “A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor’s.” – Richard Whately

17. “A messy house is a must – it separates your true friends from other friends. Real friends are there to visit you not your house!”- Jennifer Wilson

18. “A person’s character is shown through their actions in life, not where they sit on Sunday.” – Navonne Johns

19. “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell

20. “A stab from a friend cuts deeper than a stab from a foe.” ― Amit Kalantri

21. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasow

22. “Act like you trust people, but don’t.” – Mayank Chawla

23. “Along the way, you will discover that not everyone is on your side. Some may clap, but on the low, they are praying you fail.” ― Carlos Wallace

24. “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

25. “Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.” – Meg Cabot

26. “Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.” – Sara Shepard

27. “An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.”- E.A. Bucchianeri

28. “An honest enemy is better than a best friend who lies.”- Vandi Tanko

29. “And if we do speak out, we risk rejection and ridicule. I had a best friend once, the kind that you go shopping with and watch films with, the kind you go on holiday with and rescue when her car breaks down on the A Shortly after my diagnosis, I told her I had DID. I haven’t seen her since. The stench and rankness of a socially unacceptable mental health disorder seems to have driven her away.” ― Carolyn Spring

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30. “Anyone can just speak words, but only one that is tried-and-true can mean them.”- Terry O’Neal

31. “As far as I’m concerned, all politicians are fake people.” – Neil Sedaka

32. “As I get older, I realize just because I’m invited doesn’t mean I have to accept.” – Carlos Wallace

33. “As you go through life, you will find that your acquaintances will be many, but only your true friends will share your pain as well as your pleasure.” – Heidi Catherine

34. “As you grow older, you realize it becomes less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones.”- Ziad K. Abdelnour

35. “At some point, you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life.” – Sandi Lynn

36. “Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.” – Al Capone

37. “Be patient; resentment will always reveal itself.” ― Wayne Gerard Trotman

38. “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

39. “Because I hate fake people and I always think I’m never fake.” – Victoria Jackson

40. “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

41. “Before you go, I would like you to take your knife out of my back. You might need it again.” ― Charles Dickens

42. “Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.”- Shania Twain

43. “Being blinded in love and friendship is a common mistake.”- Eraldo Banovac

44. “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

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45. “Being fake is so common now that being real is seen as offensive.” – Chris Ruden

46. “Best friends has letters, but so does Backstabber.” – Wiz Khalifa

47. “Betray a friend and you’ll often find you have ruined yourself.” – Aesop

48. “Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.”- Toba Beta

49. “Betrayal is like a serious disease. There is no cure for it, and it destroys every relationship.” ― Lydia Maria Child

50. “Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.” – Christine Feehan

51. “Betrayals don’t cancel each other out. They just hurt more.” ― Carley Fortune

52. “Better an honest enemy than a false friend.” – German Proverb

53. “Bitter truth of life. To have some genuine friends, you need to have some fake ones too.” – Shikha Kaul

54. “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

55. “Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It’s how true friends talk.”- Peggy Noonan

56. “Caring and conscientious people cannot stand to see anyone suffering and the manipulator often finds it easy to play on sympathy to get cooperation.”- George K. Simon Jr.

57. “Chocolate friends may not last any longer than fake ones, but they sure as hell taste better.” – Kevin Brooks

58. “Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.” ― George Orwell

59. “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

60. “Convince people that you need them, and watch what they do.” ― Wayne Gerard Trotman

61. “Counting other people’s sins does not make you saint.” – Unknown

62. “Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. They pretend to be your friend first.” – Steve Irwin

63. “Cut off fake people for real reasons, not real people for fake reasons.” – Ritu Ghatourey

64. “Dear fake friend, may your life be filled with uncountable fake friends so that you don’t get a real one when you need someone.” ― Pablo Neruda

65. “Do you know what love is? I’ll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.” ― John le Carré

66. “Don’t be fooled by their masks. Fake people eventually show their true colors. Just wait until their mask needs cleaning.” – Sonya Parker

67. “Don’t be sad or afraid when you start losing friends, be glad you’re getting rid of the fake ones. Stay true to yourself.” – Terry Mark

68. “Don’t become so nice in this world where all are wearing a mask on their face to fool you.” – Unknown

69. “Don’t break your back for a man that wouldn’t even scratch yours.” – Unknown

70. “Don’t ever let someone tell you the value you don’t have, in order to be in someone’s life. That is often the value they feel you have, not that person.”- Shannon L. Alder

71. “Don’t fear the enemy that attacks you, but the fake friend that hugs you.” – Obameso Sunkanmi

72. “Don’t let toxic people infect you with the fear of giving and receiving one of the most powerful forces in this world… LOVE!”- Yvonne Pierre

73. “Don’t tell me what they say about me. Tell me why they feel comfortable telling you.” – Denzel Washington

74. “Don’t trust everything you see. Even salt looks like sugar.” – Narges Obaid

75. “Eliminate those fake friends who seem real when you have something and disappear when you have nothing.” – Rashida Rowe

76. “Everybody has the right to be stupid. But you are abusing the privilege.” – Unknown

77. “Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you.” ― Sherrilyn Kenyon

78. “Expect while reaching for the stars, people to whirl by with their dark clouds and storm upon you.”- Anthony Liccione

79. “Fake friends are like coal. When hot, they burn your hands. When cold, they turn your hands black.” – Unknown

80. “Fake friends are like shadows, they follow you in the sun but leave you in the dark.” ― Victoria Hanley

81. “Fake friends are like shadows. They follow you in the sun but leave you in the dark.” – Unknown

82. “Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hour.” – Khalil Gibran

83. “Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hour.” – Habeeb Akande

84. “Fake friends are like they will be the ones to stab you and then ask you why you are bleeding. Please be aware of fake friends.” ― George William Curtis

85. “Fake friends are with you today and against you tomorrow.” – Shizra

86. “Fake friends are worse than real enemies.” – Unknown

87. “Fake friends believe in rumors. Real friends believe in you.” – Yolanda Hadid

88. “Fake friends believe in what you have, true friends believe in what you are.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo

89. “Fake friends get mad when we don’t pretend to like them.” – Carlos Wallace

90. “Fake friends often save you from being naive.” – Dr. P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

91. “Fake friends smile when you are down. True friends celebrate when you are up.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

92. “Fake friends tell you pretty lies; true friends tell you ugly truths.” – Unknown

93. “Fake friends: once they stop talking to you, they start talking about you.” – Unknown

94. “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

95. “Fake love is to money what fire is to hay, there only remain ash when it is over”- Bangambiki Habyarimana

96. “Fake people are like costume jewelry: they look great for a while, then all of a sudden, their true selves ‘Shine’ thru.” – Nitya Prakash

97. “Fake people are like pennies, two-faced and worthless.” – Unknown

98. “Fake people are like soap bubbles; they pop out when the sun shines brightly.” – Chiranjude Bird

99. “Fake people don’t surprise me anymore; loyal people do.” – Unknown

100. “Fake people have an image to maintain. Real people just don’t care.” – Hikigaya Hachiman

101. “Fake people show their colors when they have no use for you anymore.” – Unknown

102. “Fake people talk about other people being Fake. Real people worry about their business and nobody else’s.” – Ziad K. Abdelnour

103. “Fake people will always hate you because you are better than them, so move forward and stay away.” – Unknown

104. “Fake people will insult you in front of the whole world, but those who are true to you will insult you more but in private.” – Shizra

105. “Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend.” – Jason Ritter

106. “False friends leave you in times of trouble.” – Aesop

107. “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

108. “Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.” – George Washington Carver

109. “Feigned interest is worse than brutal honesty.” – Stewart Stafford

110. “Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend’s success without envy.” – Aeschylus

111. “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

112. “First, there was trust. Then, there was betrayal. You cannot have one without the other. You cannot be betrayed by someone you do not trust … what you have learned is the same heart-wrenching journey of every woman to whom I have sold a poison. And it is, indeed, the same path for me.” ― Sarah Penner

113. “Flee from fake friends. There is nothing called half-truth. Whatever looks like a lie is a lie!”- Israelmore Ayivor

114. “Folded hands may conceal a dagger – Likewise a foe’s tears.” ― Tiruvalluvar

115. “For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.” ― Suzanne Collins

116. “Friends are supposed to make you feel better about yourself. Just remember that.” – Unknown

117. “Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.” ― Criss Jami

118. “Friends do not cast shade in order to shine. Remember that. I used to put up with my closest friends throwing shade all the time, because, I WANTED THEM TO SHINE. But then I learned that when you give other people the space to shine at your own expense, you’re slowly committing suicide. True friends mutually desire the other to shine without the need to cast shade or throw the other under a bus.” ― C. JoyBell C.

119. “Friends with spiteful hearts and thousand eyes of evil, mock not my slumbering glory.”- Darmie Orem

120. “Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It’s also about mutual help, not about exploitation.” – Paul Theroux

121. “Friendship is delicate as a glass. Once broken, it can be fixed, but there will always be cracks.” – Waqar Ahmed

122. “Friendship’s enemy is betrayal.” ― Toba Beta

123. “Good friends are like stars. You cannot always see them, but you will know that they are there.” – Christy Evans

124. “Goodbye is the best ever gift that you can receive from worse friends.” – Israelmore Ayivor

125. “Growing up means realizing a lot of your friends aren’t really your friends.” – Unknown

126. “Hard times and fake friends are like oil and water: they don’t mix.” – Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

127. “Hatred imprisons the haters; love opens doors.” – Debasish Mridha

128. “Have trouble spotting a selfish person? It’s about their schedule, their needs, their hurt feelings, their ideas, their goals, their…” – Shanen Thomas

129. “Having a jealous friend is like having a bad habit.” – Urban Saying

130. “Having fake friends is like hugging cactus. The tighter you hug, the more pain you get.” – Riza Prasetyaningsih

131. “He brushed his lips against her forehead as he drove the knife deeper into her back.” ― R.F. Kuang

132. “He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it.” ― Anaïs Nin

133. “How empty are the insincere words of people who, so easily, speak forth “love,” “family” and “friendship” without meaning what they say even if their intentions are good albeit mere flattery.”- Donna Lynn Hope

134. “How to make life peaceful and happy? The answer is simple and easy: Just delete all negative and destructive people from your life always and forever.”- Lord Robin

135. “Humans are more venomous than snakes” ― Atef Ashab Uddin Sahil

136. “I am severely allergic to fake people. So please don’t even approach me.” ― Robert Montgomery Bird

137. “I can’t stand fake people. I can feel it when someone feigns it.” – Jacqueline Fernandez

138. “I caught you cheating on our friendship many days ago. But I was just waiting to catch you red-handedly.” ― Emily Dickinson

139. “I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.” ― Veronica Roth

140. “I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other’s eyes out and call it a day; instead, we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth hurt from the saccharine sweetness of it all.”- Jody Gehrman

141. “I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” – Plutarch

142. “I don’t understand my feelings. I really don’t. I don’t understand how I could hate you so much after so much time. How, no matter how much I’d like to not hate you, I hate you even more. It grows.” ― Sam Shepard

143. “I hate those who play with feelings of others.” – Dominic Carey

144. “I hate two-faced people. It is so hard to decide which face to slap first.” – Unknown

145. “I have found the best way to deal with a toxic person is to not respond in any other way than monotone voice and a businesslike manner.”- Jen Grice

146. “I have 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

147. “I just trust my intuition, taking into account the psychology of things. Therefore, I am not persuaded by facts, but by behaviors.” – Maria Karvouni

148. “I knew they would kill me when they found out, but…” He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. “I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you.” ― Marissa Meyer

149. “I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.” ― Blaise Pascal

150. “I love fake people, provided they are mannequins.” – Pushpa Rana

151. “I love my enemies; at least they admit that they don’t like me.” – Unknown

152. “I love my phone because all my friends live inside it.” – Unknown

153. “I love straightforward people. The lack of drama makes life so much easier.” – Unknown

154. “I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world; this is evident from the quarrels caused by occasional indiscreet disclosures.” ― Blaise Pascal

155. “I no longer have the energy for meaningless friendships, forced interactions, or unnecessary conversations.” – Joquesse Eugenia

156. “I realize there is something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they are experts at letting things go.” – Jeffrey McDaniel

157. “I think I should have betrayed you in the same way you have done to me. Then I guess you could love yourself more.” ― Maria Gowen Brooks

158. “I think it’s better to have less friends than to have fake friends.” – Hina Khan

159. “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

160. “I think you are looking for your knife. You should check my back once, and I think that’s where you have used it for the last time.” ― Hannah Adams

161. “I think you are tired of putting so many personalities on yourself every morning. I can feel your pain.” ― Mark Twain

162. “I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray.” ― Albert Camus

163. “I used to call you my best friend. I didn’t know you had a collection of knives for stabbing people on their back.” ― William Cullen Bryant

164. “I wish I could see your real colors some years back so that I could have spent my valuable time on someone else who would have deserved it.” ― William Shakespeare

165. “I wish I didn’t meet you ever in my life. I have lost all my love and respect for you.” ― William Wells Brown

166. “I would choose to live a century in a dark room instead of hanging out with fake friends.” – Sher E Yazdan

167. “I would rather be lonely than be friends with non-friends. Losing friends is hard, but losing fake friends, as it turns out, is pretty damn easy.” – Mindy Kaling

168. “I would so much rather have a few of good friends than a lot of fake friends.” – Lauren Conrad

169. “I’m not really sure why. But… do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don’t think so. That’s what makes the betrayal hurt so much – pain, frustration, anger… and I still loved her. I still do.” ― Brandon Sanderson

170. “I’m so tired of fake friends, drama, liars, being ignored, getting hurt.” – Unknown

171. “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

172. “If he doesn’t follow through with actions, he is either selfish or a liar. Neither makes him sound like ‘the one,’ does it?” – Matthew Hussey

173. “If I doubt your intentions I will never trust your actions.” – Carlos Wallace

174. “If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.” – E.M. Forster

175. “If it comes, let it come. If it goes, it’s ok, let it go. Let things come and go. Stay calm, don’t let anything disturb your peace, and carry on.” – Germany Kent

176. “If people are hating on you it’s often because they are: Threatened by you, Jealous of you or 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

177. “If they talk about other people with you, they will talk about you with other people.”- Carlos Wallace

178. “If you are not going to be a comfort, have the decency to be an empty space.” – Jennifer Crusie

179. “If you can’t be my friend behind my back, you cannot expect to be my friend to my face.” ― Benjamin Franklin

180. “If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.”- Aesop

181. “If you claim to be a real friend, then be real in your soul. If you claim to be fake, then be an enemy instead.” – Santosh Kalwar

182. “If you don’t find the right set of eyes to see through your bull, you will always be surrounded by friends that will tell you white lies because they like your company and don’t want to ruin the evening.”- Shannon L. Alder

183. “If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.” ― Shannon L. Alder

184. “If you want to be a generous giver, you have to watch out for selfish takers.” – Adam Grant

185. “If you want to be my friend, I prefer honesty to fake praise. I was never one to run with the wolves.” – Christina Strigas

186. “If you write about the dark side of people, you are more likely to be closer to the truth, because people don’t pretend to be dark nearly as much as they pretend to be good.” – Robert Black

187. “If you’re absent during my struggle, don’t expect to be present during my success.” – Will Smith

188. “In one respect indeed, our employment may be reckoned dishonest, because, like great Statesmen, we encourage those who betray their friends.” – John Gay

189. “In the age of social media, friends are like snowflakes. They descend in their thousands. They disappear in seconds.” – Mouloud Benzadi

190. “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

191. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

192. “Incessant smiling is one of the deadly tools used by someone whose intent is to make others cry.” – Michael Bassey Johnson

193. “It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her.” ― Charlotte Featherstone

194. “It is a sad day when you find out who your friends aren’t.” – Unknown

195. “It is also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I have been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That is why we are here, after all, to help others.” – Carol Burnett

196. “It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.” – Alfred Adler

197. “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” ― William Blake

198. “It is funny how the people who know the least about you always have the most to say.” – Auliq Ice

199. “It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.” – Confucius

200. “It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it.” – Mandy Hale

201. “It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.” – Charles Kingsley

202. “It is true that one friend who used to mean the world to you and now you cannot trust a single word that comes out of their mouth.” – Unknown

203. “It makes no sense to try to extend a friendship that was only meant to be a season into a lifetime.” – Mandy Hale

204. “It makes such a difference to go through life with a kind friend on the inside rather than a critic who is telling us how we’re messing up.” – Kim Fredrickson

205. “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

206. “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

207. “It was a mistake,” you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.” ― David Levithan

208. “It’s effortless to let go of self-absorbed people. It’s challenging to let go of someone you care about and it’s exceedingly difficult to let go of an ideal and a belief in someone because what exacerbates the disappointment of finding out they weren’t who they presented themselves to be, is the betrayal of it.” ― Donna Lynn Hope

209. “It’s funny how the people who know the least about you, always have the most to say.” – Auliq Ice

210. “It’s hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.” – Nicole Richie

211. “Just like seasons, people also change. But the difference is, once gone, seasons come back.” – Himanshu Chhabra

212. “Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth. Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.” – Aberjhani

213. “Learn to use the criticism as fuel, and you will never run out of energy.” – Orrin Woodward

214. “Letting go means to realize that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” – Steve Maraboli

215. “Letting go of toxic people in your life is a big step in loving yourself.” – Hussein Nishah

216. “Life is all about losing friends, the people you know. So, just that you get better at finding the ones worth suffering for.” – Mohit Kaushik

217. “Life is full of fake people, but before you decide to judge them, make sure you are not one of them.” – Unknown

218. “life is too short for fake butter or fake people.” – Karen Salmansohn

219. “Life’s a battlefield, and we remain loyal to those who fight for us; those who’d die for us.”- Crystal Woods

220. “Like a rose, a fake friend exposes the petals in the tongue and hides the spikes in the heart.” – Nour Belhaj

221. “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

222. “Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.” – Criss Jami

223. “Lovers have a right to betray you, friends don’t.” – Judy Holliday

224. “Loyalty comes before price or prize. If not, the ties that bind become constricting garrottes as creeping spinal flesh awaits a dagger’s thrust.” ― Stewart Stafford

225. “Make no mistake about it, people who say they love you but cannot be happy for your success do not love you.” – Germany Kent

226. “Make sure the lions you roll with aren’t snakes in disguise.”- Genereux Philip

227. “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

228. “Money can’t buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.” – Spike Milligan

229. “Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.” ― William Shakespeare

230. “Most people want to see you to do better, but not doing better than them.” – London Mond

231. “My real friends never hearing from me, fake friends write the wrong answers on the mirror for me.” – Aubrey Drake Graham

232. “Narcissists are consumed with maintaining a shallow false self to others. They’re emotionally crippled souls that are addicted to attention.”- Shannon L. Alder

233. “Neither a fake friend nor a liar can be trusted, with a secret.”- Ellen J. Barrier

234. “Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.” – Confucius

235. “Never give your attention to someone who deserves your silence.”- Emma Xu

236. “No one forced you to love me, so why did you need to pretend? Your lies have left me heartbroken.” – Shami Paulin

237. “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” – Alice Walker

238. “Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.” – Michael Bassey Johnson

239. “Not all friends know they have lost you.” ― Joyce Rachelle

240. “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

241. “Often people that say they “don’t care” actually do. The moment they discuss you with their friends and family, compete with you, bad mouth you to others or react to anything you do or say is when they give themselves away. You can either be saddened or flattered that you effected someone so much. The perspective is yours to determine.” ― Shannon L. Alder

242. “One fake friend can do more harm than enemies… Be smart choosing your friends.” – Ziad K. Abdelnour

243. “One good thing about being in a bad situation: it makes picking out fake friends really easy.” – Unknown

244. “One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” – Euripides

245. “One of the main roles of our financial problems is to weed out our fake friends.”- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

246. “One should have the ability to distinguish between real and fake. Specially Real and Fake Love.” – George Femtom

247. “Only those you trust can betray you.” ― Terry Goodkind

248. “Only when you are in trouble do you realize who your true friends are… And, my dear, you will be surprised!”- Charbel Tadros

249. “Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who say every sort of wicked thing about me because I sacrificed their friendship to gain my own soul. I left the dark paths of their duplicity and turned my eyes toward the light where there is salvation, truth, and justice. They have exiled me now from their society, yet I am content. Mankind only exiles the one whose large spirit rebels against injustice and tyranny. He who does not prefer exile to servility is not free in the true and necessary sense of freedom.” ― Kahlil Gibran

250. “Over a small misunderstanding God will expose how people really feel about you…” ― Gugu Mofokeng

251. “Part of the journey in life is slipping and falling along the way; in these times true friends are the ones who pick you up and dust you off.”- Ken Poirot

252. “Pay close attention to those who don’t clap when you win.” – Unknown

253. “People bullshit and fakeness are the main reasons why I like to be alone.” – Megan Fox

254. “People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.” – Lord Chesterfield

255. “People may not always tell you how they feel about you, but they will always show you. Pay attention.” – Keri Hilson

256. “People on the top seldom have enemies, it’s most often the flattering ‘friend’ who stab them in the back.” ― Amit Abraham

257. “People only throw shade on what is shining.” – Genereux Philip

258. “People say they hate having fake people around, but when you keep it real, they hate you even more. People don’t like the truth.” – DeMarcus Cousins

259. “People spread gossips, calumny, and false accusations to destroy their subject victim’s integrity. Question the motive of people who erroneously, offensively, defensively, intrusively, abusively and intentionally brand you as a threat, a risk or a danger to life or security.” – Angelica Hopes

260. “People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true. Being surrounded by the WRONG people is the loneliest thing in the world.”- Kim Culbertson

261. “People wear masks of lies so that they look attractive, so be careful.” – Muhammad Saqib

262. “People’s bullshit and fakeness are the main reasons why I like to be alone.” – Megan Fox

263. “Perhaps the most crucial choice we make in life is who to trust.” ― Stewart Stafford

264. “Pretend to be poor in reality and you’ll notice a decrease in your friends list and request.” – Michael Bassey Johnson

265. “Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her.” ― Susan Elizabeth Phillips

266. “Real friends don’t get offended when you insult them. They smile and call you something even more offensive.” – Unknown

267. “Real friends don’t throw shade. They encourage. They know your insecurities and inspire you to evolve through kindness, love, and patience.” – Christina Daniels

268. “Real friends, are really hard to come by.” – Anthony Liccione

269. “Selfish people also tend to have victim mindsets… Their actions plant seeds of loneliness; then they cry upon the blooming.” – Steve Maraboli

270. “Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.” – Erich Fromm

271. “Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.” – Don Miguel Ruiz

272. “Share your weaknesses. Share your hard moments. Share your real side. It’ll either scare away every fake person in your life or it will inspire them to finally let go of that mirage called “perfection,” which will open the doors to the most important relationships you’ll ever be a part of.”- Dan Pearce

273. “Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.”- George R.R. Martin

274. “She would see it as betrayal. Nothing more. Nothing less.” ― Samantha Young

275. “So much of what we learn about love is taught by people who never really loved us.” – R.H. Sins

276. “So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.” ― Anna Godbersen

277. “Some of my “best friends” never say a word to me.”- Emily Smallmon

278. “Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.” ― Kamand Kojouri

279. “Some people are like moths. They come to be around you when your life is bright and nice. They come to amuse themselves through your light. But, they also flee as soon as the lights go off.”- Mitta Xinindlu

280. “Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.” – Lauren Conrad

281. “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

282. “Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it.”- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

283. “Some people’s fake is more honest than other people’s real.” – Stephen Chbosky

284. “Some scars don’t hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again.” ― Joyce Rachelle

285. “Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.” ― Shannon L. Alder

286. “Someone who smiles too much with you can sometimes frown too much with you at your back.” – Michael Bassey Johnson

287. “Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.” – Ashleigh Brilliant

288. “Sometimes it’s not the person who changes, it’s the mask that falls off.” – Mhaj Porras

289. “Sometimes the person you’d take a bullet for ends up being behind the gun.” – Tupac

290. “Your job won’t take care of you when you’ll be sailing through loneliness or going through a tragedy in life. Your friends will. Make good friends and stay in touch.”- Chanda Kaushik

291. “Sometimes your dearest friend whom you reveal most of your secrets to becomes so deadly and unfriendly without knowing that they were not really your friend.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson

292. “Sometimes, it is not the people who change; it is the mask that falls off.” – Mhaj Porras

293. “Sometimes, you have to give up on people. Not because you don’t care but because they don’t.” – Jennifer Green

294. “Spend your time with those who love you unconditionally, not with those who only love you under certain conditions.” – Suzy Kassem

295. “Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.” – Mineko Iwasaki

296. “Stay away from fake people because you don’t know when they will throw you.” – Unknown

297. “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

298. “Stay away from negative people. They have a problem, for every solution.”- Albert Einstein

299. “Stay real, stay loyal, or stay away from me.” – Unknown

300. “Stop entertaining two-faced people. You know the ones who have split personalities and untrustworthy habits.”- Amaka Imani Nkosazana

301. “Stop falling for those who won’t raise you up in the future.” – Michael Bassey Johnson

302. “Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings, and emotions.” – Will Smith

303. “Taking care of dogs is much better than taking care of fake friends like you who don’t even know the meaning of faithfulness.” ― Hannah Webster Foster

304. “Tell people how it is, be real, and be honest. If you see something wrong, make sure you speak up. Being this way will naturally eliminate the snakes and fakes.” – John Maiorana

305. “The best defense is to keep off the radar of negative people.” – Steven Redhead

306. “The best way to stop being frustrated is to not expect anything from someone.” – Unknown

307. “The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.” – Aldrich Ames

308. “The biggest coward is a man who awakens a woman’s love with no intention of loving her.” – Bob Marley

309. “The crap you hear about me might be true, or it could be as fake as the person who told you.” – Unknown

310. “The difference between my darkness and your darkness is that I can look at my own badness in the face and accept its existence while you are busy covering your mirror with a white linen sheet. You are a white witch, a wizard; your spells are manipulations and your cauldron from hell yet you wrap yourself in white and wear a silver wig.”- C. JoyBell

311. “The fake people do not dare to come out from their mask and face the truth of the real ones.”- Ehsan Sehgal

312. “The fastest way to lose friends and alienate people is to get better and improve yourself.” – Toby Young

313. “The first impression is not the last reflection of a true friend, so if you are head over heels for someone who just bought you a cake, you’d better think twice before devouring your misery.”-Michael Bassey Johnson

314. “The hawk plays with the pigeon and the pigeon is happy, but not knowing that it is playing with death.” ― Amos Tutuola

315. “The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.” – William Penn

316. “The knives of betrayal and drama cut deep and hurt… but they also trim away the nonsense and reveal your true friends.”- Steve Maraboli

317. “The most dangerous among us come dressed as angels, and we learn too late they are the devil in disguise.” – Carlos Wallace

318. “The most dangerous creature on this earth is a fake friend.” – Unknown

319. “The only keeper of your happiness is you. Stop giving people the power to control your smile, your worth, and your attitude.” – Mandy Hale

320. “The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!” – Tennessee Williams

321. “The only wolves we got to fear are the ones that wear manskin.” – George RR Marin

322. “The only wolves we got to fear are the ones wear manskin.” – George R.R. Martin

323. “The point is not that I don’t recognize bad people when I see them — I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them — the point is that I know a good person when I see one.”- Enid Blyton

324. “The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.” ― Adam Levin

325. “The problem with wearing a facade is that sooner or later life shows up with a big pair of scissors.”- Craig D. Lounsbrough

326. “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

327. “The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.” – Unknown

328. “The secret lies of manipulative folks, however hidden and cunningly twisted shall eventually come out. Never trust manipulative politically motivated, sly liars while they pretend to be “true friends” with noble and just cause.”- Angelica Hopes

329. “The sieves of time filter out the fakes from the real. Don’t look back for them; they were filtered out for your refinement.” – Drishti Bablani

330. “The strong-minded rise to the challenge of their goals and dreams. The weak-minded become haters.” – Steve Maraboli

331. “The toxic behaviors were there before you decided to enter into relationships with them. The signs were there. You may have chosen to look the other way, but the signs were there.”- P.A. Speers

332. “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” – Gloria Steinem

333. “The word friend is a label anyone can try on. You decide who is best suited to wear it.” – Carlos Wallace

334. “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

335. “The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.” – Bette Midler

336. “There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend.” – Wayne Gerard Trotman

337. “There are people that will give you time when it shines, then fade away when it shades.” – Anthony Liccione

338. “There are those whose primary ability is to spin wheels of manipulation. It is their second skin and without these spinning wheels, they simply do not know how to function. They are like toys on wheels of manipulation and control. If you remove one of the wheels, they’ll never be able to feel secure, be whole.”- C. JoyBell

339. “There are two sides to every story. Just like your face, I guess.” ― Robert Frost

340. “There is a stranger who is more than a friend, and a friend who is worse than a stranger.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson

341. “There is no fall greater than the one from a burnt bridge.” ― Carlos Wallace

342. “There is no honour in betraying your friends.” ― Madeline Miller

343. “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

344. “There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”- Arthur Conan Doyle

345. “There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder than realizing that person was incapable of retaining half of what you said, and will repeat the story all wrong to someone else.” ― Shannon L. Alder

346. “There should never be a time you make time for people who waste your time.” – Carlos Wallace

347. “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

348. “They don’t miss you when you are gone; they miss you when you move on.” – Unknown

349. “They sit around and talk about you over and over again throughout the years while you are out there living your life… ” ― C. JoyBell C.

350. “They’re not happy for you because they wish it was them.” – Carlos Wallace

351. “This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.” ― Sophie Kinsella

352. “Those who clap you on the back with one hand may clench envy’s mask behind theirs with the other.”- Stewart Stafford

353. “Three belongings impoverish: love, hope and fake friendships.” – Tiziri Wuming

354. “Time passes, and you begin to see people for who they really are and not who they pretend to be.” – Scarlet Koop

355. “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

356. “Toxic people attach themselves like cinder blocks tied to your ankles, and then invite you for a swim in their poisoned waters.”- John Mark Green

357. “Toxic people will pollute everything around them. Don’t hesitate. Fumigate.”- Mandy Hale

358. “Traitors are more dangerous than enemies.” – Velupillai Prabhakaran

359. “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

360. “True friends accept you for what you are, wart and all.” – Jeffrey Michael

361. “True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. Fake friends are like autumn leaves, found everywhere.” – Ari Joseph

362. “True friends esteem you of greater worth than you feel deserving. False friends demand you prove that worth.”- Richelle E. Goodrich

363. “True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.” – Henry David Thoreau

364. “Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.” ― Ziad K. Abdelnour

365. “Trust, once lost, could not be easily found. Not in a year, perhaps not even in a lifetime.” ― J.E.B. Spredemann

366. “Until you realize how easy it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else’s game.”- Evita Ochel

367. “Watching my back is the perfect opportunity to stick a knife in it.” ― Holly Black

368. “We are all damaged. We have all been hurt. We have all had to learn painful lessons. We are all recovering from some mistake, loss, betrayal, abuse, injustice or misfortune. All of life is a process of recovery that never ends. We each must find ways to accept and move through the pain and to pick ourselves back up. For each pang of grief, depression, doubt or despair there is an inverse toward renewal coming to you in time. Each tragedy is an announcement that some good will indeed come in time. Be patient with yourself.” ― Bryant McGill

369. “We have to be cautious of who we allow in our circle because a frenemy can be more destructive than an enemy.”- Angel Moreira

370. “We must learn to sanitize our environment from time to time to remove bad associates”- Victor Walsh Oluwafemi

371. “We never lose friends; fake ones are exposed.” – Carlos Wallace

372. “We sometimes wish for the prosperity of someone who is secretly praying for our downfall.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

373. “We teach people how to treat us.” – Dr. Phil

374. “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

375. “Weeding out the harmful influences should become the norm, not the exception.” – Carlos Wallace

376. “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

377. “What greater wound is there than a false friend?” – Sophocles

378. “What is more important, that Caesar is assassinated or that he is assassinated by his intimate friends? … That,’ Frederick said, ‘is where the tragedy is.” ― M.L. Rio

379. “What you love is your own love. It is not love; it is selfishness. It is not me you think of, but what you feel about me.” – John Fowles

380. “What’s the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?” – Jess C. Scott

381. “When dealing with two faced people, it is difficult to know which face is uglier, the real one or the manufactured one.”- Matshona Dhliwayo

382. “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

383. “When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.” ― Cassandra Clare

384. “When our phones fall, we panic. When our friends fall, we laugh.” – Unknown

385. “When people can walk away from you, let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left.” – T.D. Jakes

386. “When people smile at a rich man, they are smiling at his wallet.”- Matshona Dhliwayo

387. “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” – Maya Angelou

388. “When you are up there, hundreds of people will claim you as a friend. When you are down, you are lucky if one will buy you a cup of coffee.” – Frank W. Abagnale

389. “When you care about someone, you can’t just turn that off because you learn they betrayed you.” ― Paula Stokes

390. “When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, “What was it that you wanted and why didn’t you fight for it?” ― Shannon L. Alder

391. “When you see the genuine, you don’t deal with the fakes anymore.” – Nima Davani

392. “Which of these two fake friends do we manage — the one who rejoices silently when trouble comes to us or the one who refuses to rejoice with us when good things come to us?” ― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

393. “While you were busy stabbing my trust and faith, I was cutting my existence from your toxic life.” ― John Adams

394. “Why shouldn’t I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they’re loved and wanted and then show them that it’s all a sham.” ― Agatha Christie

395. “Words don’t have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess.” ― Shannon L. Alder

396. “Yes, the people around us can be insensitive, narcissistic, toxic, and sometimes even abusive, but it is up to us to take that energy on or let it flow through us. No one is responsible for taking away our happiness but us.”- Aletheia Luna

397. “You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.” – Jodi Picoult

398. “You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.” ― Catherynne M. Valente

399. “You are not really one of some of your friends’ friends.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

400. “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

401. “You can’t keep snakes in your backyard and expect them only to bite your neighbors.” ― Hillary Rodham Clinton

402. “You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people.”- Joel Osteen

403. “You create more space in your life when you turn your excess baggage to garbage.” – Chinonye J. Chudolue

404. “You didn’t acknowledge my existence when I was struggling. You didn’t even support my efforts. I’m now shocked at your sudden interest in my success.”- Mitta Xinindlu

405. “You don’t evolve with fake friends or people that are not on your level. It’s much better to stay alone; then you can evolve.” – Cristi Cris

406. “You don’t have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.”- Joyce Rachelle

407. “You don’t know what are they hiding in their heart, so don’t trust until you find.” – Unknown

408. “You don’t lose friends because real friends can never be lost. You lose people masquerading as friends, and you are better for it.” – Mandy Hale

409. “You got nothing to lose. You don’t lose when you lose fake friends.” – Joan Jett

410. “You have been officially removed from my life forever. So now you can stop stalking me every day.” ― Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson

411. “You never lose friends. Real ones will always stay no matter what, and the fakes you don’t need anyway.” – Drishti Bablani

412. “You should be aware of fake friends because it is the hardest to be aware of.” – Eraldo Banovac

413. “You will be surrounded by many so-called well-wishers during your good times, but there will be only a few ones around you in your bad times.” – Anurag Prakash Ray

414. “You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.” – Mandy Hale

415. “You will never have to question the intentions or integrity of people who have your best interest at heart.”- Germany Kent

416. “You would always have undesired people around you but desired ones are least likely” – Pushpa Rana

417. “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

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