Frenemies Quotes

“life is too short for fake butter or fake people.”
― Karen Salmansohn

“She's a jellyfisher: You have a conversation with her that seems all nice and friendly, then you suddenly feel like you've been stung and you don't know where it came from.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

“Most friendships are a sort of frozen and undeveloping semi-hostility.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“Sometimes no ones is fighting you. No one is against you. Is just your mentality and attitude, misleading you. Most of the time , it is because of your evil heart.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“That theory will be blown when she’s conferring with the event security, wearing an earpiece and holstering a firearm under her business suit. Or if she perceives a threat and pulls a gun, because she—and no offense, sweetheart—looks awful trigger-happy.”

She set her forearms on the table. “You have no idea how true that statement is. But right now the person I’d be gunning for most is you, sweetheart.” Then she smiled.

Holy shit. The smile completely transformed her face—but Devin wasn’t sure if it was a good thing or a bad thing because the grin straddled the line between sexy and evil.”
― Lorelei James, Hillbilly Rockstar

“As my muscles marginally relax, the tension flicks from anger to fevered desire. I want to tear each wisp of clothing off her and tie her to this f**king desk. I’ll know next time, to bring my satin ribbon.”
― M.R. Field, Fractures

“I’m baffled why you’re so keen to make me your enemy. I’m a wonderful actor; if that’s the role you cast for me, I’ll perform. But it doesn’t have to be so.” She heard, Your move, devil.”
― Kim Smejkal, Ink in the Blood

“After this she paid him a daily visit — always under the conviction that they were great enemies. 'Oh yes, we're intimate enemies,' Ralph used to say; and he accused her freely — as freely as the humor of it would allow — of coming to worry him to death. In reality they became excellent friends, Henrietta much wondering that she should never have liked him before. Ralph liked her exactly as much as he had always done; he had never doubted for a moment that she was an excellent fellow.They talked about everything and always differed . . .”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“Who needs enemies With friends like these?
And you —
ask for shade and they'll place you under a cactus tree.
We're all on the same journey, future's looking bleak. It's a tragedy
when there's no more loyalty.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Letter 19

“The first good deed in your dissolute life. Aren’t you curious what it would feel like?”

He laughed, but I did not press him further. He was still, always, an Olympian, still Zeus’ son. I was allowed license because it amused him, but I never knew when that amusement might end. You can teach a viper to eat from your hands, but you cannot take away how much it likes to bite.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Good friends always pay you back , when they have borrowed money from you. Bad friends give you attitude and don't pay you back , because they are selfish and they think no one is more deserving than them.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Toxic' was actually an accurate description of the feelings Clementine had so often felt in Erika's presence: the intense aggravation she had to work so hard to resist and conceal, the disappointment with herself, because Erika wasn't evil or cruel or stupid, she was simply annoying, and Clementine's response to her annoyingness was so completely disporportionate, it embarassed and confounded her. Erika loved Clementine. She'd do anything for her. So why did she inflame Clementine so? It was like she was allergic to her.”
― Liane Moriarty, Truly Madly Guilty

“By the emphasis on love and good works and all of those wonderful things in school and at home, parents sometimes fail to teach how to recognize the coiled rattlesnake.”
― Melina Sempill Watts

“I believe nobody was ever so used by a friend as I have been by her ever since coming to the Crown.”
― Anne Somerset, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

“The fence is as strong now as it was the day we met. Barbed wire strewn between white picket fences and roughhewn poles.”
― Ciara Knight, If You Love Me

“A man-stealing, failed wannabe New York fashionista”
― Ciara Knight, If You Love Me

“If your enemies can't beat, you. They choose to use your own people against you to destroy, beat and defeat you. They choose people within your circle. People who you are close to you. One of your own. They will make sure that you turn against each other, because that is how you will lose your power. If you are strong enough to survive your enemies, then don’t choose self hate. It will also destroy you.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“I don’t get how an angel like you is friends with a demon like her.”
― Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

“Some people the reason they hate you so much .It is not that you had done something , but It is because they are wrong about you. In their mind they already created a bad version of you. They want you to turn out to be a bad person , so they can hate you more and justify their hate towards you. but you are proving them wrong by being a good , kind, sweet person and that is killing them.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“My message to my high altitude frenemies is this: Your luck has ran out.”
― Steven Magee

“When your friends like you, it is your craze and when your frenemies like you, it is your grace”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Abantu abathanda indaba zabantu. Abazithandi bona. Ngoba indaba zabantu soze zikusize ngalutho, futhi soze zilungise impilo yakho.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Choose to do things, because you want to, not because they told you or made you do it. Reason being lot of people choose to do or say bad things. If they know they can deny the responsibility of the outcome or they can shift the blame, when the results are bad. Not everyone has best interest for you at heart. Mostly, they are looking out for themselves. People can put your life in danger, as long it won't affect them.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Fake friends like the weaker, poor , suffering, sad and useless version of you. Once they see that you are stronger, richer, doing well, happier and useful. They feel threaten.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Choose the company you keep carefully. Choose who you party with. Choose whom you drink with. Choose whom you hang around with. Shanquella Robinson was murdered while she was on a vacation with friends. Among her friends, No one knows what happen or how she died. Senzo Meyiwa was also murdered in the presence of his girlfriend and friends. Amongst his friends, No one knows what happen or who killed him. They all died in the presence of people they trusted, people they know and people they thought are their friends.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Handling might mean weeping into a bottle of vodka in the gutted remains of his dreams, but hey, rock bottom and him were fast and familiar frenemies.”
― Katherine McIntyre, Charisma Check

“The sad thing is people I am fighting for to have a good life. They are fighting me to have a bad life. They are the ones who are responsible for my bad life.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“You were just the snobby, annoying kid my mom made me compete against all the time."
"She's only saying that because I usually beat her," I said in a stage whisper before raising my glass to her. "It's fine, you were the popular one. At least you have that going for you."
Bernadette grinned and clinked her glass against mine. "To my best frenemy.”
― Mia P. Manansala, Murder and Mamon

“Whenever there is fallout, secrets come out. Carefully choose people you hang around with or people you call friends. Not everyone who is close to you wishes well for you. Some come close so they can destroy you. Not everyone is genuine happy when your life is good. Choose who confide and open to. Choose who you bring close to your circle and who you trust with your life and secrets.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos