Unreliable Support Quotes

I feel like there are instances and circumstances in your life that always change. You can think someone's your friend, and it could be out of convenience, or there was something in it for them, or whatever. And a year later, something happens and you really need help, or all of a sudden they have to stand up for you, and it could be inconvenient for them or not benefit them. And they don't have your back. And you're like, "Ok, that friendship was circumstantial. You were only my friend when it was easy." What's hard is you can't tell from the beginning.

You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.

And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

It's the most humbling sport ever. It's like a lousy lover. It's like some guy who's never there when you need him. Every once in a while, he comes and makes you feel like heaven on earth.. And then the moment you say, 'I really need this,' he's gone.

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

I don't know what they're thinking about. Just because someone says, 'I like what you do' or something: They might like it today and tomorrow they might not. I've had that experience with record companies.

… a rotten plank, upon which no man could trust himself without sinking.

An independent member means a member who cannot be depended upon.

By a revolution in the state, the fawning sycophant of yesterday is converted into the austere critic of the present hour.

I think the British viewing and listening public are very fickle. If they like you they will listen to you, they will watch you. If they change their mind then it's all over.

I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every point! What traitors books can be! You think they're backing you up, and then they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives.

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

Anything that consoles is fake.

He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.

The hardcore fanbase of nerds that live on the Internet are not nearly as powerful as I thought they were. They really, really aren't. They also flip-flop like mad.

I would say that my parents were intermittently proud of me. They couldn't hang onto it, you know? It would come and go, like the flu.

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

It's usually when the cameras leave that the support leaves as well.

I never felt settled or calm. You can't really commit to life when you feel that.

When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

There's almost nothing worse to live with than a struggling artist.

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is not easy. Without a secure home base, I could not have made much progress.

It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.