No True Friends Quotes:

There can be no true friends without true enemies

- Michael Dibdin

source: FaceBook post by Michael Dibdin from Feb 12, 2012

topic: True Friend, Enemy, No True Friends, Clash Of Civilizations

There are no true friends in politics.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: True Friend, Politics, No True Friends

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: "The Trumpet of Conscience". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s steeler lecture at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

topic: Friendship, Wisdom, Clever, Sounds Of Silence, Meaningful Friendship

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

- Clifton Fadiman

topic: Real, Real Friends, Numbers, Songs And Friendship, Inspiring Friends

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

- Alan Clark

source: 1990 Diary entry, 30 Nov.

topic: True Friend, Sharks, Blood, No True Friends

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: "Little Foxes". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 3, 1865.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Friendship, No True Friends, True Lovers

I have had no true friends, only lovers.

- Pablo Picasso

topic: Love, True Friend, Lovers, No True Friends

Till man destroys "self" he is no true friend of God.

- Rumi

source: Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Rumi (2015). “Collected Poetical Works of Rumi (Delphi Classics)”, p.318, Delphi Classics

topic: Wisdom, True Friend, Islamic, No True Friends

If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.55

topic: Friendship, True Friend, Selfish, No True Friends, True Lovers