130 Betrayal Fake Friends Quotes To Unmask Phonies

Amidst the friendships, an unwelcome guest knocks on your door – betrayal done by friends (well, fake friends now). 

To acknowledge our emotions and to understand our feelings better, I made this list of the most relatable betrayal fake friends quotes. These quotes delve into the intricacies of trust, loyalty, and deception. 

I know from personal experience that the journey of acceptance that your dearest friend is not what you thought he/she is can be really terrifying, but it is a journey that you will have to face.

They just weren’t up to your standards, and it just had to be this way, sadly. But to capture the feelings and the ways to cope with this awful event, here is a list of betrayal fake friends quotes! 

Best Betrayal Fake Friends Quotes

1. “A stab from a friend cuts deeper than a stab from a foe.” ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

2. “There is no fall greater than the one from a burnt bridge.” ― Carlos Wallace, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments Into Your Greatest Blessings

3. “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

4. “It was a mistake,” you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.” ― David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary

5. “For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.” ― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

6. “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

7. “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.

8. “Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.” ― Criss Jami, Healology

9. “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, Invincible

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

See also: 150 Brutal & Eye-Opening Fake & Selfish Friends Quotes

Friends Betrayal Quotes

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

2. “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, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One

3. “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

4. “Buy a gift for a dog, and you’ll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don’t have anything to offer to it, it won’t even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson

5. “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, The Fall

6. “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, Scarlet

7. “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, If We Were Villains

8. “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

9. “Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.” ― Christine Feehan, Dark Demon

10. “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, Ninth Grade Slays

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

12. “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

13. “Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.” ― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

14. “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

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

16. “Do you know what love is? I’ll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.” ― John le Carré, The Looking Glass War

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

18. “Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her.” ― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Kiss an Angel

19. “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

20. “Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.” ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

Two Faced Fake Friends Quotes

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

2. “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, Pensées

3. “Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson

4. “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, The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side

5. “…fool me once, shame on me…fool me twice…I deserved to get fuc*ed over.” ― Derekica Snake, Tentacles for the Brides Bouquet

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

7. “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. p. 128” ― Jodee Blanco, Please Stop Laughing at Me… One Woman’s Inspirational Story

8. “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, Frankenstein

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

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

11. “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, Shaping the dream

12. “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

13. “True friends esteem you of greater worth than you feel deserving.

False friends demand you prove that worth.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

See also: 130 Know Your Worth Quotes To Remind You Of Your Greatness

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

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

16. “There is a 100% assurance that what your friend’s enemy tells you about your friend is false. What your failure tells you about your passion is fake. Don’t give up!” ― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365 

17. “Fake friends are like snow flakes.

They descend in their thousands. They disappear in seconds.” ― Mouloud Benzadi

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

19. “Despite how advanced we are in educating modern women, this type will still go through life living in identity crisis, endlessly looking for providers of any kind at the end of the day. They can never stand up for others or things that matter because they can’t stand up for themselves. They care what everyone thinks only doing things to impress men, friends, strangers, everyone in society except themselves, while at the same time can’t stand seeing other women with purpose get what those women want in life. But let me tell you, this is nothing new, let them compete and compare with you as much as they wish, be it your career, love or spirit. You know who you are and you will know who your true girls are by weeding out girls that break our girlie code of honor, but do me a favor by losing this type of people for good. Remind yourself to never waste time with a person who likes to betray others’ trust, never. Disloyalty is a trait that can’t be cured. Bless yourself that you see a person’s true colors sooner than later. With love, your mama. XOXO” ― Shannon L. Alder

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

When Friends Betray You Quotes

1. “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, Deathless

2. “If you’re betrayed, release disappointment at once.

By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root.” ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

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

4. “Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.” ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

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

6. “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

See aslo:  50 Quotes on Letting Go of Someone You Love

7. “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

8. “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

9. “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, Rumors

10. “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

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

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

13. “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, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

14. “Betrayals don’t cancel each other out. They just hurt more.” ― Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

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

16. “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, Fool for Love

17. “She would see it as betrayal. Nothing more. Nothing less.” ― Samantha Young, Blood Will Tell

18. “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, The Lost Apothecary

19. “Friendship’s enemy is betrayal.” ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

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

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Backstabbing Quotes Fake Friends

1. “Watching my back is the perfect opportunity to stick a knife in it.” ― Holly Black, The Wicked King

2. “He brushed his lips against her forehead as he drove the knife deeper into her back.” ― R.F. Kuang, The Dragon Republic

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

4. “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

5. “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

6. “It’s very easy to get a boy to leave the room.

It’s much harder to get him to leave your thoughts.” ― Elizabeth Eulberg, Prom & Prejudice

7. “Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue.

Words you can’t have back, so they linger.” ― Coco J. Ginger

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

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

10. “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

11. “As they spoke, the only thing I could think about was that scene from Julius Caesar where Brutus stabs him in the back. Et tu, Eric?” ― Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember

12. “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

13. “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 |Yenugwar|

14. “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 A1. 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, Living with the Reality of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Campaigning Voices

15. “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, Life is not Complicated, You Are

16. “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

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

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

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

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

See also: 140 Greatest Fake Family Quotes To Get Over It

Funny Betrayal Quotes

1. “You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!” ― Harry S. Truman

2. “The word “friend” is a label anyone can try on. You decide who is best suited to wear it.” ― Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

3. “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

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

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

6. “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 

7.  “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 

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

9.  “I used to share my secrets because I considered you my best friend. But you decided to share my secrets with everyone. May God never bless anyone with snakes like you.”  ― Albert Einstein

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

11. “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 

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

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

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

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

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

17. “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

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

19. “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

20. “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

Sad And Insulting Quotes For Fake Friends

1. “too often i was afraid

       to test the limits

       of kindness

       without inviting

       betrayal

       or backstab” ― Hanna Abi Akl, Memory

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

3. “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, The Final Empire

4. “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, 1984

5. “Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.” ― Arthur Miller

6. “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

7. “If you are not going to be a comfort, have the decency to be an empty space.” ― Jennifer Crusie, Bet Me

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

9. “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

10. “There is no honour in betraying your friends.” ― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

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

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

13. “There is a stranger who is more than a friend, and a friend who is worse than a stranger.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

14. “Farewell to a fake friend is the genuine felicitation” ― Sir P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

15. “The hawk plays with the pigeon and the pigeon is happy, but not knowing that it is playing with death.” ― Amos Tutuola, Ajaiyi and His Inherited Poverty

16. “A frenemy can be more destructive than an enemy.” ― Angel Moreira

17. “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.

18. “Loyalty is the mask of fake friends and reality is the face of true friends” ― Sir P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

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

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

See also: 210 Relatable Fake Love Quotes For The Brokenhearted

Final Word

I am sad that you were googling these quotes, and that you have to go through this, but these betrayal fake friends quotes serve as a reminder that you are stronger than you think you are.

Don’t let your spirit down, because I am sure that you will find somebody who you will feel free to trust again. 
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