False Friends

Famous quotes containing the words false and/or friends:

    Whereas the comic confronts simply logical contradictions, the tragic confronts a moral predicament. Not minor matters of true and false but crucial questions of right and wrong, good and evil face the tragic character in a tragic situation.
    —Marie Collins Swabey. Comic Laughter, ch. 7, Yale University Press (1961)

    “We’re all friends here” is a prelude to fraud. “I am sincere” is a prelude to lying.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)