47 Quotes About Backstabbing Best Friends

Having a friend that you can not trust and is a backstabber is just one way to lose faith in others. These quotes about backstabbing best friends capture the lack of spirit and trust that end up as a result to this type of behavior.

“A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.”

“Backstabbers specialize in saying the wrong thing at the wrong time to the wrong person.”

“Be careful to whom you trust. Betrayal always come from the persons you trusted.”

“Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.”

“Before you go. I would like you to take this knife out of my back. You’ll probably need it again.”

“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.”

“Excuse me, when did my back become a target for your knife throwing contest?”

“False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us when we cross into the shade.”

“For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.”

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

“I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray.”

“I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.”

“I’m not crying because of you; you’re not worth it.”

“I’m the kind of friend who will help you hide a dead body, but if you betray me, just remember, I know how to hide a body.”

“If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.”

“If I treated you the way you treated me. You would hate me.”

“If you are not my friend behind my back, don’t pretend to be my friend to my face.”

“If you’re going to stab me in the back, be smart enough to cover up the knife.”

“It hurts when you go through something that kills you inside but you have to act like it doesn’t affect you at all.”

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”

“It was a mistake, you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.”

“It wasn’t the knife your friend stab me in the back with that hurt me. It was the dagger of your silent acceptance.”

“It’s funny how sometimes the people you’d take a bullet for are the ones behind the trigger.”

“It’s hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it?.”

“Look, I found your knife. It was stuck in my back, but I got it out and I’m sure you’ll need it again real soon!”

“No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver…. The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.”

“People are complicated creatures. On the one hand, able to perform great acts of charity. On the other, capable of the most underhanded forms of betrayal. It’s a constant battle that rages within all of us.”

“Remember, there are two sides to every story. Kind of like your face.”

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

“Stop asking me to trust you while I’m still coughing up water from the last time you let me drown.”

“Strangers can become best friends just as quickly as best friends can become strangers.”

“There are many backstabbing friends who in your hard time will ignore you, without to ask something from them. You just are filled with sadness and they don’t confide in you anymore. The downside of your hard time is being considered rude, negative, boorish and insistent.”

“There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust.”

“There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven’t the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it when they see it; not the stomach to apprehend it as they do it. Most men, blind and dumb in their self-centeredness, don’t betray: they merely disappoint.”

“They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.”

“To understand loyalty you need to experience betrayal.”

“We can tolerate our true enemies, but not the back stabbers and betrayers.”

“We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection.”

“We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.”

“When someone betrays you, it is a reflection of their character, not yours.”

“When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.”

“When you said you has my back, I didn’t realize you meant for a place to store your knife.”

“When your so called friends say they have your back, make sure they’re not holding a knife.”

“You know that you have been stabbed when you feel the deep pain of betrayal”

“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise.”

“You must get tired of putting makeup on two faces every morning.”

“You stabbed me then pretended you were the one who was bleeding.”

Backstabbers can also be considered to be toxic people. Keep them out of your life to be mentally healthier.