49 Quotes About Being Shady

You can connect with anyone. Dealing with the potential of shady people can leave you feeling less than comfortable. Here is a look at some of the best quotes about being shady that are encouraging to read.

“A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.”

“A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.”

“A shady business never yields a sunny life.”

“Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.”

“An honest enemy is better than a best friend who lies.”

“An honest enemy is better than a false friend. When in doubt, pay more attention to what people do and less to what they say. Actions not only speak louder than words, they are more difficult to fake.”

“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.”

“Be very careful of who you share your problem with, remember that not every friend that smile at you is your best friend.”

“Conflicts of interest’ arise when you’re not – when you’re sneaky about it, when you’re shady about it, when you’re not transparent about it.”

“One step to being more confident is to stop thinking about why you can’t possibly be good enough for other people; be good enough FOR YOU.”

“Every coin has two sides, just like most people have two faces.”

“Fake friends are like autumn leaves, they’re scattered everywhere.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.”

“I can only be in the sun for 15 minutes before burning. I have sunscreen on my face every day. If I’m walking on the sunny side of the street, I’ll walk to the shady side. I’m too uncomfortable in the sun.”

“I consider myself Istanbul’s storyteller. My subject matter is my town. I consider it my job to explore the hidden patterns of my city’s clandestine corners, its shady, mysterious places, the things I love.”

“I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.”

“I have way too shady a background to get into politics. I was a crazy kid – I was in bands, and I don’t think I’d get very far before people started digging up stuff I didn’t want them to see.”

“I like playing weird, kind of shady people.”

“I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.”

“I used to think enemies were the worst people in the world, but that was until I met fake friends and realized that they’re a lot worse.”

“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.”

“I’ve never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is.”

“You can try and pray but people will always betray, you can lay down and beg and plead they will just make you bleed.”

“Never let judgmental people stop you from being yourself and doing what you do best.”

“Keep talking about me behind my back, and watch God keep blessing me in front of your face.”

“Don’t let anyone’s negativity stop you from being happy. Negative company will never give you a positive life.”

“Montanans elected me to the Senate to do away with shady backroom deals and to make government work better.”

“Most people want to see you to do better, but not doing better than them.”

“My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.”

“Pretend to be poor in reality and you’ll notice a decrease in your friends list and request.”

“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.”

“Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.”

“The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.”

“The funniest thing is I never understood why actors were so shady about who they’re dating. Then I realized the things you say get printed and the people you’re involved with read them. That’s what’s tricky. Nothing goes unnoticed. I don’t want to get myself in trouble!”

“The heyday of woman’s life is the shady side of fifty.”

“The movie industry can be tricky and occasionally creepy, and I have this sense that the music industry is just shady as hell. I don’t want to be a part of it.”

“The open web is full of spam, shady operators, and blatant falsehoods. Outside of a relatively small percentage of high quality sites, most of the web is chock full of popup ads and other interruptive come-ons. It’s nearly impossible to find signal in that noise, and the web is in danger of being overrun by all that crap.”

“The same person that speaks highly of you will be the same person that downs you. Be careful who you call friends.”

“The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren’t perfect. No one is.”

“There is a difference between a voyeur and a tender witness. Maybe I think the audience is more of a tender witness than a voyeur, which has a shady undertone.”

“Time alone can prove the worth of friendship. As time goes by we lose the the false ones and keep the best. True friends stay when all the rest are gone.”

“To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivaling, at times, that of carnival circuses.”

“Watch who you call friend, because friends are the same ones that will leak your business to everyone after y’all not friends anymore.”

“We fear our enemy but the bigger and real fear is that of a fake friend who is sweetest to your face and most vile behind your back.”

“Well, you can’t trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.”

“You got nothing to lose. You don’t lose when you lose fake friends.”

Self-deception is just one part of being shady and creates a distrust in others.