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
- Old friends and old wine are best
- Short debts (accounts) make long friends
- A friend is never known till needed
- Even reckoning makes long friends
- A Joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend
- A friend to all is a friend to none
- False friends are worse than open enemies
- Better lose a jest than a friend
- He that has a full purse never wanted a friend
- Friends are thieves of time
- He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs
- A hedge between keeps friendship green
- A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound
- Choose an author as you choose a friend