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:
- A Joke never gains an enemy but often loses a friend
- Short debts (accounts) make long friends
- Even reckoning makes long friends
- He is a good friend that speaks well of us behind our backs
- A friend is never known till needed
- Better an open enemy than a false friend
- All are not friends that speak us fair
- He that has a full purse never wanted a friend
- A friend to all is a friend to none
- Better lose a jest than a friend
- Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him
- A broken friendship may be soldered, but will never be sound
- Choose an author as you choose a friend
- Friends are thieves of time
- A friend in need is a friend indeed