How we cite our quotes: (Act.Scene.Line)
Quote #7
TIMON:
You knot of mouth-friends! Smoke and lukewarm water
Is your perfection. (3.6.89-90)
Timon might start the scene by acting all buddy-buddy with these guys, but by the end of it, he's called them out on their fake friendship. He's super insulted and angry at how much he trusted them. Smoke and lukewarm water is pretty much all they are.
Quote #8
FLAVIUS:
Who would be so mock'd with glory? or to live
But in a dream of friendship?
To have his pomp and all what state compounds
But only painted, like his varnish'd friends?
Poor honest lord, brought low by his own heart,
Undone by goodness! Strange, unusual blood,
When man's worst sin is, he does too much good!
Who, then, dares to be half so kind again?
For bounty, that makes gods, does still mar men.
My dearest lord, bless'd, to be most accursed,
Rich, only to be wretched, thy great fortunes
Are made thy chief afflictions. Alas, kind lord!
He's flung in rage from this ingrateful seat
Of monstrous friends. (4.2.33-46)
We'll leave it to Flavius to sum up Timon's downfall. It's no surprise that he blames Timon's friends for it all; it's a shame to think back to when Timon seemed to value his friends over his money. Now, he has neither.
Quote #9
ALCIBIADES:
Noble Timon,
What friendship may I do thee? (4.3.70-71)
One of the only genuine offers of friendship in the play comes from Alcibiades, after Timon has taken up in a cave in the woods. Before, all Timon valued were his friends; now, he is too skeptical and jaded to accept any kind of friend. What gives, Timon? Do you only want friendship on your own terms?