Alfred de Musset Quotes

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

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

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

I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing.

Fake friends believe in rumors. Real friends believe in you.

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

It is often our best friends who throw us down.

Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Did you really think I would sell you out?

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

Nobody likes to feel like they are being torn apart behind their back.

I don't like people going behind my back.

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

He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.

Do not turn your back on anyone. You may be painted on one side only.

It goes without saying that your friends are usually the first to discuss your personal business behind your back.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

I heard my mother talking badly of me to people who were talking badly of me in her salon. That's probably the thing that I'm most sensitive of in all my friendships and my relationships. I just... I just can't take that. I'm comfortable with enemies, but I can't take it from friends.