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:
- Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him
- False friends are worse than open enemies
- A friend in need is a friend indeed
- Short debts (accounts) make long friends
- Choose an author as you choose a friend
- Better lose a jest than a friend
- A Joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend
- Even reckoning makes long friends
- A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound
- A friend to all is a friend to none
- All are not friends that speak us fair
- He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs
- A hedge between keeps friendship green
- Better an open enemy than a false friend
- Old friends and old wine are best