False friends leave you in times of trouble.
We always blame other people when things go wrong. For example, family to friends, you think they'll stay by your side, and you realise they never do. But that's life.
I wake up at night thinking about Euripides' 'Hecuba.' That to me is a story that says so much about what it is to be a human being in the middle of a world of unreliable things and people.
Friendship is but a name; fidelity but an empty name.
I went through a huge transition in my life where everything and everyone I knew and trusted didn't turn out to be that way.
No reliance can be placed on the friendship of kings, nor vain hope put in the melodious voice of boys; for that passes away like a vision, and this vanishes like a dream.
Men are going to go out on the road and they're going to find other women. So if you really want to save yourself a whole lot of heartache, do not fall in love with somebody in a band. Just don't.
The most unreliable thing in this world is human relationships.
The people you are supposed to be able to trust the most is your family, and when that trust is broken, it's painful.
Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.
My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.
You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.
For if good fortune makes your friends for you, Ill fortune makes them enemies for sure.
Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.