Sometimes you’ve just had enough.
You need a fresh start.
Away from people who you thought would support you but didn’t. From the people that you needed kindness from but only displayed indifference or criticized you or talked about you behind your back.
In today’s post I’d like to share timeless advice on this painful topic and give you 105 of the best fake people and fake friends quotes.
I truly hope this post will bring you some comfort, new perspectives and motivate you to move on from disappointment and hurt and into a happier and more loving chapter of your life.
And if you want even more helpful inspiration and advice then check out this post with wellness quotes and also this one filled with quotes on dealing with toxic people.
Fake People Quotes to Inspire You to Move On
“You got nothing to lose. You don’t lose when you lose fake friends.”
Joan Jett
“Life is too short for fake butter or fake people.”
Karen Salmansohn
“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
“I don’t have time for fake friends anymore. Either be real, or be gone.”
Unknown
“Real friends celebrate your wins. Fake friends downgrade them.”
Dan Go
“When you see the genuine, you don’t deal with the fakes anymore.”
Nima Davani
“I can’t stand fake people. I can feel it when someone feigns it.”
Jacqueline Fernandez
“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
“Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to venture far out into the uncharted territories of my inner truth, in search of what it means to be genuine and at peace with who I really am. I have abandoned the masquerade of living up to the expectations of others and explored the new horizons of what it means to be truly and completely me, in all my amazing imperfection and most splendid insecurity.”
Anthon St. Maarten
“You create more space in your life when you turn your excess baggage to garbage.”
Chinonye J. Chudolue
“I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile.”
Tyler Knott Gregson
“If you’re absent during my struggle, don’t expect to be present during my success.”
Will Smith
“Someone who smiles too much with you can sometimes frown too much with you at your back.”
Michael Bassey Johnson
“Pay close attention to the people who don’t clap when you win.”
Leonardo DiCaprio
“Stay away from people who make you feel like you are wasting their time.”
Paulo Coelho
“Stand up for yourself. Walk away from the ones that hurt you or don’t care. It’s called self respect and I wish I had focused on that long ago instead of trying to fit in.”
Unknown
“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
Alice Walker
“It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it.”
Mandy Hale
Wise Fake Friends and Fake People Quotes
“People don’t change. They just take their masks off. We never lose friends; fake ones are exposed.”
Carlos Wallace
“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 people have an image to maintain. Real people just don’t care.”
Unknown
“Fake friends are like shadows, always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hour.”
Habeeb Akande
“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
“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
Plutarch
“Not my job to expose the fake. In due time they expose themselves.”
Unknown
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Pretend to be poor in reality and you’ll notice a decrease in your friends list and requests.”
Michael Bassey Johnson
“Spend your time with those who love you unconditionally, not with those who only love you under certain conditions.”
Suzy Kassem
“Fake people talk about other people being fake. Real people worry about their business, and no one else’s.”
Ziad K. Abdelnour
Quotes on Fake Friends for a New Perspective
“Never give your attention to someone who deserves your silence.”
Emma Xu
“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”.”
Dan Pearce
“True friends esteem you of greater worth than you feel deserving. False friends demand you prove that worth.”
Richelle E. Goodrich
“Everybody isn’t your friend. Just because they hang around you and laugh with you doesn’t mean you are your friends. People pretend well. At the end of the day, real situations expose fake people, so pay attention.”
Unknown
“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
“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
“Stop texting first and see how many dead plants you’ve been watering.”
Unknown
“If you choose bad companions, no one will believe that you are anything but bad yourself.”
Aesop
“The strong-minded rise to the challenge of their goals and dreams. The weak-minded become haters.”
Steve Maraboli
“Fake friends are like weeds that keep you stuck and crowded in the same place year after year. You need to cut that away to free yourself and to properly grow as a person.”
Unknown
“If they talk about other people with you, they will talk about you with other people.”
Carlos Wallace
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
Aristotle
“Fake friends are around you when they think you are cool. True friends are around you even when they think you are a fool. Fake people are like soap bubbles. They pop out when the sun shines brightly.”
Chiranjude Bird
“Just because you loved a fake person does not mean your love was not real.”
Steph Feels
Fake People Quotes to Help You Cherish True Friends and Loved Ones
“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
“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.”
Arnold H. Glasow
“Fake friends believe in rumors. Real friends believe in you.”
Yolanda Hadid
“Friends are supposed to cheer you up when you cry, not the reason why you cry. Some people were only friends because you saw them five times a week. Convince people that you need them, and watch what they do.”
Wayne Gerard Trotman
“Find yourself friends who will talk shit to your face but stand up for you behind your back.”
Dan Go
“Fake friends only reach out when they need something. They never text you back, but then you see them on Instagram. They ignore you now, but they need you later. Some people were only friends because you saw them five times a week. Some of my “best friends” never say a word to me.”
Emily Smallmon
“Only a true friend will tell you to your face what others are saying behind your back.”
Unknown
“It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.”’
Charles Kingsley
“You will never have to question the intentions or integrity of people who have your best interest at heart.”
Germany Kent
“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
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
William Blake
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
Henry David Thoreau
“A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!”
Doug Larson
“Most people want to see you do better, but not doing better than them.”
London Mond
Quotes About Fake People, Betrayal and Jealousy
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.”
Shania Twain
“A fake friend likes to see you do well, but not better than them.”
Unknown
“You won’t need to explain your side of the story to a true friend. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.”
Sophie Kinsella
“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
“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.”
William Penn
“You say I’m going to fight your battles, well girl you’re wrong. I knew you weren’t my best friend all along. Imagine if I didn’t have the ends, I wouldn’t have so many imaginary friends.”
Kanye West
“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
“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
“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.”
Bette Midler
“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
“You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.”
Jodi Picoult
“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
“Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.”
Christine Feehan
“Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.”
George Washington Carver
Fake Friends Quotes About Enemies and Lies
“A genuine enemy is more useful than a fake friend.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.”
Criss Jami
“The most dangerous creature on Earth is a fake friend.”
Captain Jack Sparrow
“Better an honest enemy than a false friend.”
German Proverb
“One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies… Be smart choosing your friends.”
Ziad K. Abdelnour
“Sometimes the bridges you burn light the right way. Away from too many friends that don’t really care. Towards the few ones that truly matter and love you.”
Unknown
“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
“We have to be cautious of who we allow in our circle because a frenemy can be more destructive than an enemy.”
Angel Moreira
“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
“What’s the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?”
Jess C.
“Friendship is delicate as a glass, once broken it can be fixed but there will always be cracks.”
Waqar Ahmed
“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
“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
Short Quotes About Fake Friends and Fake People
“False friends leave you in times of trouble.”
Aesop
“True friends cry when you leave. Fake friends leave when you cry.”
Unknown
“Letting go of toxic people in your life is a big step in loving yourself.”
Hussein Nishah
“The best defense is to keep off the radar of negative people.”’
Steven Redhead
“People only throw shade on what’s shining.”
Genereux Philip
“Because I hate fake people and I always think I’m never fake.”
Victoria Jackson
“Feigned interest is worse than brutal honesty.”
Stewart Stafford
“I hate those who play with the feelings of others.”
Dominic Carey
“Sometimes it’s not the person who changes, it’s the mask that falls off.”
Mhaj Porras
“Betray a friend and you’ll often find you have ruined yourself.”
Aesop
“Stop falling for those who won’t raise you up in the future.”
Michael Bassey Johnson
“Fake friends: once they stop talking to you, they start talking about you.”
Unknown
“It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.”
Confucius
“A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.”
Benjamin Franklin
“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”
Walter Winchell
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