Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Quotes

You have to be 100% behind someone, before you can stab them in the back.

Be careful of your enemy once and of your friend a thousand times, for a double crossing friend knows more about what harms you.

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.

The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.

Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs.

Politics—where they pat you on the back so they'll know where to stick the knife.

Treat your friends as if they were going to be your enemies one day.

...if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

I don't like people going behind my back.

Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.

Don't bad-mouth me and then try to be my friend.

In a low whisper she was certain only her friend could hear, she said, "I specifically remember we both promised never to drink from any man's goblet of wine. From the looks of you, Frances Catherine, I'm thinking you broke your word.

And if he is lying and he double-crosses you, I’ll kill him for you.” From anyone else, it would have been an idle threat, and I smiled, feeling loved. (Ivy and Rachel)

Holly clambered after him, struggling up the human-size steps. "Wait! Just wait," she called, overtaking Artemis and looking him in the eye from one step up. "I know you, Artemis. You like to play your genius card close to your chest until the big reveal. And that's worked out for us so far. But this time you need to let me in. I can help. So, tell me the truth, do you have a plan?" Artemis met his friend's gaze and lied to her face. "No," he said. "No plan.

Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.

The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.

Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.

Thus did I bear Sir Lancelot de Lac to the Keep of Ganleon, whom I trusted like a brother. That is to say, not at all.