A friend's frown is better than a foe's smile
Лучше хмурое лицо друга, - чем улыбка врага.
Лучше горькая правда друга, чем лесть врага. Недруг поддакивает, а друг спорит.
Другие пословицы:
- Better an open enemy than a false friend
- A friend is never known till needed
- He that has a full purse never wanted a friend
- Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him
- All are not friends that speak us fair
- Old friends and old wine are best
- Friends are thieves of time
- A friend to all is a friend to none
- A hedge between keeps friendship green
- False friends are worse than open enemies
- Short debts (accounts) make long friends
- Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them
- A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound
- He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs
- Choose an author as you choose a friend