Fake People Quotes 2023 Fake Friends Quotes and Fake People Sayings

How to deal with them

•  “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
•  “We never lose friends. We simply learn who the real ones are.” – Unknown
•  “Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth. Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.” – Aberjhani
•  “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
• . “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
•  “Time passes and you begin to see, people for who they really are and not who they pretend to be.” – Scarlet Koop
•  “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
•  “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
•  “Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.” – Sara Shepard
•  “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

Quotes for those who betrayed you

•  “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
•  “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
•  “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
•  “Better an honest enemy than a false friend.” – German Proverb
•  “As I get older, I realize just because I’m invited doesn’t mean I have to accept.”― Carlos Wallace
•  “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
•  “You got nothing to lose. You don’t lose when you lose fake friends.” – Joan Jett
•  “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
•  “Sometimes it’s not the person who changes, it’s the mask that falls off.” – Mhaj Porras
•  “True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.” – Henry David Thoreau

Quotes to help you manage

•  “A friendship that can cease has never been real.” – St. Jerome
•  “If you are not going to be a comfort, have the decency to be an empty space.” – Jennifer Crusie
•  “You would always have undesired people around you but desired ones are least likely” ― Pushpa Rana
•  “We teach people how to treat us.” – Dr. Phil
•  “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
• “Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.” – Shania Twain
•  “Lovers have a right to betray you, friends don’t.” – Judy Holliday
•  “Humans are more venomous than snakes.” – Atef Ashab Uddin Sahil
•  “At some point you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life.” – Sandi Lynn
• “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
• Fake friends quotes about people and their lies
•  “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
•  “We never lose friends, fake ones are exposed.” ― Carlos Wallace
•  “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
•  “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
•  “Fake friends are with you today and against you tomorrow, whatever they say defines them not you .” ― Shizra
•  “Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
•  “It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.” – Charles Kingsley. (Fake People Quotes)
• “True friends esteem you of greater worth than you feel deserving. False friends demand you prove that worth.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich
• If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our selection of friendship quotes celebrating life-long relationships.
•  “An honest enemy is better than a best friend who lies.” – Vandi Tanko
•  “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

These help you treasure the true ones

•  “You never lose Friends.
  Real ones will always stay – no matter what
  and the fakes, you don’t need anyways.” ― Drishti Bablani
•  “Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.” – Lauren Conrad
•  “You should be aware of fake friends because it is the hardest to be aware of.” ― Eraldo Banovac
•  “I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” ― Plutarch
•  “Make sure the lions you roll with aren’t snakes in disguise.” – Genereux Philip
•  “Best friends has 11 letters, but so does Backstabber.” – Wiz Khalifa
•  “If you want to be my friend, I prefer honesty to fake praise.” – Christina Strigas
•  “The best defence is to keep off the radar of negative people.” – Steven Redhead
•  “Over a small misunderstanding God will expose how people really feel about you…” -Gugu Mofokeng
•  “A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!” – Doug Larson

False friends and sayings

•  “Sometimes the person you’d take a bullet for ends up being behind the gun.” – Tupac
•  “A genuine enemy is more useful than a fake friend.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
•  “You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.” – Jodi Picoult
•  “What greater wound is there than a false friend?” – Sophocles
•  “False friends leave you in times of trouble.” ― Aesop
•  “Eliminate those fake friends who seem real when you have something and disappear when you have nothing.” – Rashida Rowe
•  “The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.” – William Penn
•  “The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.” – Bette Midler
• “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 are like soap bubbles, they pop out when the sun shines brightly.” ― Chiranjude Bird
• Quotes about fake friends and betrayal
•  “It’s hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it….” ― Nicole Richie
•  “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
•  “It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”― Confucius
•  “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”― William Blake
•  “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
• 86. “Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”― Mineko Iwasaki
•  “Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.”― Toba Beta
•  “Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.”― Christine Feehan
•  “Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.”― George R.R. Martin
•  “Betray a friend and you’ll often find you have ruined yourself.” — Aesop
• You might also like these I’m Sorry quotes for when you can’t find the right words.

People and jealousy

•  “If you’re absent during my struggle, don’t expect to be present during my success.” ― Will Smith
•  “When you see the genuine, you don’t deal with the fakes anymore.”― Nima Davani
•  “What’s the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?”― Jess C. Scott
•  “I love fake people provided they are mannequins.”― Pushpa Rana
•  “life is too short for fake butter or fake people.”― Karen Salmansohn
•  “Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.”― George R.R. Martin
•  “Betray a friend and you’ll often find you have ruined yourself.” — Aesop

People’s Who jealousy from you →

•  “If you’re absent during my struggle, don’t expect to be present during my success.” ― Will Smith
•  “When you see the genuine, you don’t deal with the fakes anymore.”― Nima Davani
•  “What’s the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?”― Jess C. Scott
•  “I love fake people provided they are mannequins.”― Pushpa Rana
•  “life is too short for fake butter or fake people.”― Karen Salmansohn
•  “Feigned interest is worse than brutal honesty.”― Stewart Stafford
•  “If they talk about other people with you, they will talk about you with other people.”― Carlos Wallace
•  “When people smile at a rich man, they are smiling at his wallet.”― Matshona Dhliwayo
•  “Anyone can just speak words, but only one that is tried-and-true can mean them.”― Terry O’Neal
•  “The fake people do not dare to come out from their mask and face the truth of the real ones.”― Ehsan Sehgal
• Fake people quotes and sayings to remember
•  “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
•  “Fake relationships and fake people coming up to me and all of a sudden wanting to be my friend.” – Jason Ritter
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•  “I hate those who play with feelings of others.” – Dominic Carey
•  “A fake friend is an enemy in disguise.” – Ellen J. Barrier
•  “If I doubt your intentions I will never trust your actions.” – Carlos Wallace
•  “Spend your time with those who love you unconditionally, not with those who only love you under certain conditions.” – Suzy Kassem
•  “People wear masks of lies so that they look attractive, so be careful.” – Muhammad Saqib
•  “If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.” – Aesop
•  “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
•  “Fake friends believe in rumors. Real friends believe in you.” – Yolanda Hadid
•  “The word “friend” is a label anyone can try on. You decide who is best suited to wear it.” – Carlos Wallace
• “No one forced you to love me, so why did you need to pretend? Your lies have left me heartbroken.” – Shami Paulin
•  “Just like seasons, people also change. But the difference is, once gone, seasons come back.” – Himanshu Chhabra
•  “Stop falling for those who won’t raise you up in the future.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
•  “One should have the ability to distinguish between real and fake. Specially Real and Fake Love.” – George Femtom
• More fake people quotes and fake friends sayings
• 116. “It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it.” – Mandy Hale
• 117. “True friends esteem you of greater worth than you feel deserving. False friends demand you prove that worth.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
•  “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
•  “One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies… Be smart choosing your friends.” – Ziad K. Abdelnour
•  “A friend to all is a friend to none.” – Aristotle (Fake People Quotes)
•  “There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend.” – Wayne Gerard Trotman
•  “Goodbye is the best ever gift that you can receive from worse friends.” – Israelmore Ayivor
•  “Pretend to be poor in reality and you’ll notice a decrease in your friends list and request.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
•  “The only wolves we got to fear are the ones that wear manskin.” – George RR Marin
•  “You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people.” – Joel Osteen
•  “Someone who smiles too much with you can sometimes frown too much with you at your back.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
•  “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
•  “Most people want to see you to do better, but not doing better than them.” – London Mond
•  “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
•  “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
•  “One fake friend can do more damage than five enemies.” — Unknown
•  “Growing up means realizing a lot of your friends aren’t really your friends.” — Unknown
•  “A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.” — Benjamin Franklin
•  “Fake friends: once they stop talking to you, they start talking about you.” — Unknown
•  “Fake friends are like autumn leaves. They’re scattered everywhere.” — Unknown
•  “A real situation will always expose a fake friend.” — Unknown
•  “Some people are real. Some people are good. Some people are fake and some people are real good at being fake.” — Unknown
•  “As we grow up, we realize it becomes less important to have a ton of friends, and more important to have real ones.” — Unknown
•  “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
•  “Fake friends are around when they think you’re cool. True friends are around even when they think you’re fool.” — Unknown

Enemies and friends

•  “Fake friends are worse than real enemies.” — Unknown
•  “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Walter Winchell
•  “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” — Arnold H. Glasow
•  “Better to have an enemy who slaps you in the face than a friend who stabs you in the back.” — Unknown
• “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
•  “Having fake friends is like hugging cactus. The tighter you hug, the more pain you get.” — Riza Prasetyaningsih
•  “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
•  “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
• “Popularity doesn’t mean anything when you’re surrounded by fake friends who care less about who you are on the inside, but accept what you look like on the outside.” — Unknown
•  “If they talk about other people with you, they will talk about you with other people.”― Carlos Wallace
• Fake friend quotes about lies, secrets, and pretending
•  “Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.” ― Criss Jami, Healology
•  “Fake friends get mad when we don’t pretend to like them.” ― Carlos Wallace
•  “They’re not happy for you because they wish it was them.” ― Carlos Wallace
•  “You are not really one of some of your friends’ friends.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
•  “We sometimes wish for the prosperity of someone who is secretly praying for our downfall.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
•  “We have to be cautious of who we allow in our circle because a frenemy can be more destructive than an enemy.” ― Angel Moreira
•  “This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.” ― Sophie Kinsella, Shopaholic Ties the Knot
•  “Hard times and fake friends are like oil and water: they don’t mix.”― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
•  “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
•  “We have to be cautious of who we allow in our circle because a frenemy can be more destructive than an enemy.”― Angel Moreira

What we really think about them?

•  “A fake friend indeed is a friend only in his need.”― Jagadeesh Kumar
•  “One of the main roles of our financial problems is to weed out our fake friends.”― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
•  “As far as I’m concerned, all politicians are fake people.” — Neil Sedaka
•  “I think it’s better to have less friends than to have fake friends.” — Hina Khan
•  “Because I hate fake people and I always think I’m never fake.” — Victoria Jackson
•  “I can’t stand fake people. I can feel it when someone feigns it.” — Jacqueline Fernandez
•  “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
•  “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
• “Fake love is to money what fire is to hay, there only remain ash when it is over”― Bangambiki Habyarimana
•  “We must learn to sanitize our environment from time to time to remove bad associates”― Victor Walsh Oluwafemi