Fake people are everywhere. They can be your friends, family or even strangers that cross your path. It’s hard to trust them and it’s even harder to know when they’re being genuine or not. It’s essential to be aware of these types of people so you can protect yourself from any harm they may cause.

To help with this, here is a long list of quotes about fake people that will help you recognize them and distance yourself from them. Read on to discover some profound words about the dangerous consequences of having fake friends in your life.

  1. “Fake people have an image to maintain. Real people just don’t care.” ― Hachiman Hikigaya
  2. “Someone who smiles too much with you can sometimes frown too much with you at your back.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
  3. “Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.” – George Washington Carver
  4. “Hatred imprisons the haters; love opens doors.” – Debasish Mridha
  5. “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” – Alice Walker
  6. “The strong-minded rise to the challenge of their goals and dreams. The weak-minded become haters.” – Steve Maraboli
  7. “Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.” ― Criss Jami, Healology
  8. “It’s funny how the people who know the least about you, always have the most to say.” ― Auliq Ice
  9. “Stay away from people who makes you feel like you are wasting their time.” ― Paulo Coelho
  10. “People only throw shade on what’s shining.” ― Genereux Philip
  11. “They’re not happy for you because they wish it were them.” – Carlos Wallace
  12. “Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hour.” – Khalil Gibran
  13. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
  14. “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
  15. “Pay close attention to the people who don’t clap when you win.” ― Leonardo DiCaprio
  16. “Just because you loved a fake person does not mean your love was not real.” ― Steph Feels
  17. “Fake people are like soap bubbles. They pop out when the sun shines brightly.” – Chiranjude Bird
  18. “You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.” – Sophie Kinsella
  19. “Humans are more venomous than snakes.” ― Atef Ashab Uddin Sahil
  20. “One fake friend can do more harm than 10 enemies… be smart choosing your friends.” – Ziad K. Abdelnour
  21. “Fake friends are with you today and against you tomorrow.” – Shizra
  22. “Fake friends get mad when we don’t pretend to like them.” – Carlos Wallace
  23. “Fake people will insult you infront of the whole world but those who are true to you will insult you more but in private.” ― Shizra
  24. “Letting go of toxic people in your life is a big step in loving yourself.” ― Hussein Nishah
  25. “Mindset matters…always. The difference found between the victorious and the envious, the successful and the haters; is mindset.” ― Steve Maraboli
  26. “Hard times and fake friends are like oil and water: they don’t mix.” ― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
  27. “Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings, and emotions.” – Will Smith
  28. “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
  29. “You create more space in your life when you turn your excess baggage to garbage.” – Chinonye J. Chudolue
  30. “The problem is, people are being hated when they’re real and loved when they’re fake.” ― Bob Marley
  31. “They’re not happy for you because they wish it were them.” – Carlos Wallace
  32. “Most people want to see you do better, but not doing better than them.” – London Mond
  33. “The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.” – Chris Jammi
  34. “You will never have to question the intentions or integrity of people who have your best interest at heart.” – Germany Kent
  35. “Fake friends often save you from being naive.” – Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
  36. “If you’re going to have to rehearse a lie you better be a good actor.” ― T.W. Lawless
  37. “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
  38. “What’s the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?” ― Jess C. Scott
  39. “We never lose friends; fake ones are exposed.” – Carlos Wallace
  40. “Life is too short for fake butter or fake people.” ― Karen Salmansohn
  41. “It makes no sense to try to extend a friendship that was only meant to be a season into a lifetime.” – Mandy Hale
  42. “Never give your attention to someone who deserves your silence.” – Emma Xu
  43. “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
  44. “If they talk about other people with you, they will talk about you with other people.” ― Carlos Wallace
  45. “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
  46. “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
  47. “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
  48. “Make no mistake about it, people who say they love you but cannot be happy for your success do not love you.” ― Germany Kent
  49. “We never lose friends. We simply learn who the real ones are.” – Unknown
  50. “Faking your own death is illegal, yet faking your own life is celebrated.” ― Dean Cavanagh
  51. “A friend to all, is not a friend to anyone.” ― Mike Skinner
  52. “If you cheat to win you really can’t claim victory because you did not play fair.” ― Germany Kent
  53. “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
  54. “One of life’s ironies is that the more honest and vulnerable you are, the more others try to discredit you as a fraud and a fake. Shut them up by not caring.” ― Dan Pearce
  55. “Time passes and you begin to see, people for who they really are and not who they pretend to be.” – Scarlet Koop
  56. “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
  57. “Having fake friends is like hugging cactus. The tighter you hug, the more pain you get.” — Riza Prasetyaningsih
  58. “The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.” – William Penn
  59. “Sometimes it’s not the person who changes, it’s the mask that falls off.” – Mhaj Porras
  60. “A friendship that can cease has never been real.” – St. Jerome
  61. “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 G.
  62. “Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.” ― George R.R. Martin
  63. “You would always have undesired people around you but desired ones are least likely” ― Pushpa Rana
  64. “Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.” – Shania Twain
  65. “If I doubt your intentions I will never trust your actions.” ― Carlos Wallace
  66. “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
  67. “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” ― Alice Walker
  68. “Being too nice is a crime today. Fake friends are every where around you. They will use you and when you are of no use, throw you away like a wrapper .” ― Shizra
  69. “If you’re absent during my struggle, don’t expect to be present during my success.” ― Will Smith
  70. “Sometimes the person you’d take a bullet for ends up being behind the gun.” ― Tupac
  71. “Fake people have an image to maintain. Real people just don’t care.” – Hachiman Hikigaya
  72. “A person’s character is shown through their actions in life NOT where they sit on Sunday.” –Navonne Johns
  73. “Fake happiness is the worst kind of sadness.” ― Dominic Riccitello
  74. “Most people want to see you do better, but not doing better than them.” ― London Mond
  75. “Best friends has 11 letters, but so does Backstabber.” – Wiz Khalifa
  76. “Fake friends believe in rumors. Real friends believe in you.” – Yolanda Hadid
  77. “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
  78. “Better an honest enemy than a false friend.” – German Proverb
  79. “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
  80. “You got nothing to lose. You don’t lose when you lose fake friends.” – Joan Jett
  81. “True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.” – Henry David Thoreau
  82. “You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.” – Jodi Picoult
  83. “The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.” – Bette Midler
  84. “I would so much rather have a few of good friends than a lot of fake friends.” ― Lauren Conrad
  85. “Cut off fake people for real reasons, not real people for fake reasons.” ― Ritu Ghatourey
  86. “Not my job to expose the fake. In due time they expose themselves.”
  87. “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
  88. “Fake people don’t surprise me anymore, loyal people do.”
  89. “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
  90. “People bullshit and fakeness are the main reasons why I like to be alone.” ― Megan Fox
  91. “A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.” — Benjamin Franklin
  92. “Lovers have a right to betray you, friends don’t.” – Judy Holliday
  93. “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
  94. “When you see the genuine, you don’t deal with the fakes anymore.”― Nima Davani
  95. “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
  96. “Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.” – Sara Shepard
  97. “Hard times and fake friends are like oil and water: they don’t mix.”― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu
  98. “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
  99. “Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.” – Lauren Conrad
  100. “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
  101. “God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.” – William Shakespeare
  102. “I prefer to surround myself with people who reveal their imperfection, rather than people who fake their perfection.” ― Charles F. Glassman
  103. “A genuine enemy is more useful than a fake friend.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
  104. “Be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.” ― Suzy Kassem
  105. “Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?” ― Jean Renoir
  106. “Sometimes, you have to give up on people. Not because you don’t care but because they don’t.” ― Jennifer Green
  107. “Anyone can just speak words, but only one that is tried-and-true can mean them.” ― Terry O’Neal
  108. “Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.” – Sara Shepard
  109. “If your actions are dictated by who might be watching, they’ll never be genuine and neither will you.” ― Vincent H. O’Neil
  110. “Fake people always think others are fake.” – Tomichan Matheikal
  111. “If it comes, let it come. If it goes, it’s ok, let it go. Let things come and go. Stay calm, don’t let anything disturb your peace, and carry on.” ― Germany Kent
  112. “Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.” ― Confucius
  113. “In one respect indeed, our employment may be reckoned dishonest, because, like great Statesmen, we encourage those who betray their friends.” ― John Gay
  114. “The problem is, people are being hated when they’re real and loved when they’re fake.” – Bob Marley
  115. “I’m not interested in hearing from those who preach joy or talk such crap about ‘positivity pledges’ about not allowing negative thoughts to drain them of energy, or about sending vibes of positive energy into the world and being grateful for all the wonderful things it’s going to attract into lives. That stuff’s all well and good, except that most people who talk shit like this are as fake.” ― Karl Wiggins
  116. “It’s hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.” ― Nicole Richie
  117. “If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.” ― E.M. Forster
  118. “A friendship founded on business is good deal better than a business founded on friendship.” ― John D. Rockefeller
  119. “Brother, even by our mother’s dust, I charge you, do not betray me to your mirth or hate.” ― John Ford
  120. “Someone who smiles too much with you can sometimes frown too much with you at your back.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
  121. “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
  122. “Friendship is also about liking a person for their failings, their weakness. It’s also about mutual help, not about exploitation.” ― Paul Theroux
  123. “Being fake is so common now that being real is seen as offensive.” – Chris Ruden
  124. “Because I hate fake people and I always think I’m never fake.” ― Victoria Jackson
  125. “Remember the friends who stuck with you when they thought you had nothing.” ― Joyce Rachelle
  126. “Part of the journey in life is slipping and falling along the way; in these times, true friends are the ones who pick you up and dust you off.” ― Ken Poirot
  127. “I let people see the cracks in my life. We can’t be phony. We’ve got to keep it real.” – Charles Swindoll
  128. “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
  129. “Just be honest with who you are. Don’t pretend to be something you’re not. Don’t be a phony. Walk your talk. That’s how God works, so doing it is emulating how Source works.” – Wayne Dyer
  130. “There’s no use of pretending to be good in front of people who are also doing same to us. Mutual deceptions don’t lead anywhere!!” ― Rajneesh Sharma
  131. “Narcissists are consumed with maintaining a shallow false self to others. They’re emotionally crippled souls that are addicted to attention.” ― Shannon L. Alder
  132. “Weeding out the harmful influences should become the norm, not the exception.” ― Carlos Wallace
  133. “He told me he was real, he told me he was there and that he cared for me. Then he told me the thing that imprisons you… is your own mind, and at that moment he vanished and I realized… I had created him. He was never there, he never cared, it was just me… all me.” ― Maranda Kuhl
  134. “As you grow older, you realise it becomes less important to have more friends and more important to have real ones.” ― Ziad K. Abdelnour
  135. “Anyone that hates on you is always below you because they’re just jealous of what you have.” ― Miley Cyrus
  136. “Nice words and nice appearance doesn’t conclude that someone is nice. I believe that the nicer you look, the more deceptive you appear.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
  137. “People striving for approval from others become phony.” – Ichiro Suzuki
  138. “When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can’t even correct yours.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
  139. “I do think that young children can spot a phony a mile away.” – Fred Rodgers
  140. “Mostly, I think people are fake. Well, what do you expect? The fake world we live in conspires to make us all fakes.” ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz
  141. “As far as I know, only politicians can make this kind of miracle by staying more than 30 years of their entire life lying or hiding from the electors what really happen behind the political curtain of our status quo. This is one of the rare cases that a politician can swear in front of any deity or authority without any hesitation: “I really appreciate your ignorance or indifference about politics. It’s a blessing for me in my lifetime.” ― Frederick Vanderbuilt
  142. “Fake people always think others are fake.” ― Tomichan Matheikal
  143. “Be careful who you trust because as quickly as they say they’re your friend is how quick they can turn their backs on you.” ― Abhishek Tiwari
  144. “No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.” — Alice Walker
  145. “A friend is with you in the sunshine and the darkness; a fake friend is one who is only there for the sunshine.” — Catherine Pulsifer
  146. “Fake people will insult you in front of the whole world, but those who are true to you will insult you more but in private.” — Shizra
  147. “You can’t fake listening. It shows.” – Raquel Welch
  148. “So many of us hide from ourselves and we don’t even know who we are and why were we here? All people will prove they are better and put fake masks on their own faces. Every people pretend herself what they actually not from inside.” ― Silentknight
  149. “You can’t fake it when you’re alone with God, you know.” – Jim Bakker
  150. “He thought that even naturalness can be feigned; at times, a mask disguises too well the expressions of a face that does not exist either outside or under it.” ― Carlos Fuentes
  151. “Don’t pretend to be what you’re not, instead, pretend to be what you want to be. It is not pretense, it is a journey to self-realization.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
  152. “I just trust my intuition taking into account the psychology of things. Therefore, I am not persuaded by facts, but by behaviors.” ― Maria Karvouni

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