Quotes About Bad Friends

Quotes about bad friends serve as poignant reminders of the importance of surrounding oneself with genuine and loyal companions. These insightful words highlight the impact of toxic relationships, the value of discernment, and the empowerment that comes from letting go of detrimental friendships to foster personal growth and well-being.

Selfish Bad Friends Quotes

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

False friendship, like ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. — Richard Burton

Make sure the lions you roll with aren’t snakes in disguise. — Beenereux Philip

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

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

Fake friends are like soap bubbles. They pop out when the sun shines brightly. — Chiranjude Bird

Sometimes it’s not the person who changes, it’s the mask that falls off. — Mhaj Porras

Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much off your mind, feelings, and emotions. — Will Smith

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

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

You never lose friends. Real ones always stay — no matter what about the fakes, you don’t need anyways. — Drishti Bablani

You should be aware of fake friend because it is the hardest to be aware of. — Eraldo Banovac

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

Some people think that the truth can be hidden away 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

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

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

Sometimes the person you’d take a bullet for ends up being behind the gun. — Tupac

Time passes and you begin to see people for who they really are and not who they pretend to be. — Scarlet Koop

Most people want to see you do better, but not doing better than them. — London Mond

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

Best friends has 11 letters but so does backstabber. — Wiz Khalifa

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. — Alice Walker

They’re not happy for you because they wish it were them. — Carlos Wallace

Letting go of toxic people in your life is a big step in loving yourself. — Hussein Nishah

If you’re absent during my struggle, don’t expect to be present during my success. — Will Smith

You got nothing to lose. You don’t lose when you lose fake friends. — Joan Jett

At some point you have to learn that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life. — Sandi Lynn

You create more space in your life when you turn your excess baggage to garbage. — Chinonye J. Chudolue

Never give your attention to someone who deserves your silence. — Emma Xu

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

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

Friends are supposed to make you feel better about yourself. Just remember that. – Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

They don’t miss you when you are gone; they miss you when you move on. – Anonymous

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

Quotes About Bad Friends And Karma

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

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

Stay away from fake people because you don’t know when they will throw you. – Anonymous.

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. – Anonymous

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

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

Fake friends are like coal. When hot, they burn your hands. When cold, they turn your hands black. – Anonymous

Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hour. True friends are like stars, you don’t always see them but they are always there.- Habeeb Akande

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Make sure the lions you roll with aren’t snakes in disguise. – Genereux Philip

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

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

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

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

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

One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies… Be smart choosing your friends. – Ziad K. Abdelnour

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

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

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

Friends ask you questions; enemies question you. – Criss Jami

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Indirect Quotes For Fake Friends

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pay close attention to those who don’t clap when you win. – Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fake people are like costume jewelry: They look great for a while, then all of a sudden, their true selves ‘shine’ through. – Nitya Prakash

I’m so tired of fake friends, drama, liars, being ignored, getting hurt. – Anonymous

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

Growing up means realizing a lot of your friends aren’t really your friends. – Anonymous

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

I love straightforward people. The lack of drama makes life so much easier. – Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

Fake friends: once they stop talking to you, they start talking about you. – Anonymous

The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies. – Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

‘Best friends’ has 11 letters, but so does ‘backstabber.’ – Wiz Khalifa

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

Short Quotes About Bad Friends

Fake friends are with you today and against you tomorrow. — Shizra

Stop texting first and see how many dead plants you’ve been watering.

Better an honest enemy than a false friend. — German Proverb

What greater wound is there than a false friend? — Sophocles

Friends ask you questions, enemies question you. — Criss Jami

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. — Arnold H. Glasow

People only throw shade on what’s shining. — Genereux Philip

Some people were only friends because you saw them five times a week.

Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach. – Shania Twain

Don’t fear the enemies who attack you, fear the fake friends that hug you.

People don’t change. They just take their masks off.

Sometimes the bridges you burn light the right way.

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

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

What greater wound is there than a false friend? – Sophocles

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

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

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

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.- Benjamin Franklin

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

Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye. – Beyoncé Knowles

Fake people are like pennies, two-faced and worthless. – Anonymous

Fake friends tell you pretty lies; true friends tell you ugly truths. – Anonymous

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

The most dangerous creature on this earth is a fake friend. – Anonymous

I hate two-faced people. It is so hard to decide which face to slap first. – Anonymous

Sometimes the person you’d take a bullet for ends up being behind the gun. – Tupac Amaru Shakur

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

A friend to all is a friend to none. – Aristotle

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

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

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