Quotes About Backstabbing

Bobby Roode is the kind of guy who will stab anyone in the back to get what he wants.

Here is what I know. When you're running a successful company or an organization, you can take this human equation to the bank: underconfidence plus insecurity always equals paranoia and backstabbing.

They who turn their backs towards other men laugh at their ambitions

There is no disease I spit on more than treachery.

Et tu, Jaffa?

A full-throttled deployment of the practices of strategic communication would kill candor and leave truth bereft to fend for herself in the backstabbing night of political bogeys.

Flight 2039 to Boston is now boarding at gate 14A, a voice announced over the PA system. Nellie sighed. I love Irish accents. She paused. And Australian accents. And English accents. A dreamy look came over her face. Theo had an awesome accent. Dan snorted. Yeah, there was just that one tiny problem. He turned out to be a two-timing, backstabbing thief.

In politics, there are no friends.

Donald Trump talks about everyone behind their backs.

I know that there are people in the industry who praise me in person and then stab me in the back.

It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.

They smile in my face, behind my back they talk trash, Mad and stuff because they don't have cash.

I'll be waiting to welcome you with that "my old pal" stuff, and give you the glad hand, and at the first good chance I get stab you in the back.

As we've seen, such jerks don't need to hold prestigious positions—they just need to be adept at recruiting allies to help them backstab, intimidate, and spread vicious lies about anybody who stands in their way.

Two-faced grinfuckers have certain signature moves. They pretend to enthusiastically agree with every decision you make or idea that you have, but rather than telling you when they disagree, they never actually implement the ideas, or do the exact opposite, or intentionally implement the decisions or ideas so badly that failure is inevitable. Then they bad-mouth you and other colleagues behind your backs for your terrible ideas and judgment.

The founding fathers had the right idea. They never envisioned professional politicians. They wanted citizen legislators, leaving their farms for a few years to serve their fellow man. A civic responsibility like jury duty. But under our current system, you almost have to be a megalomaniac to have interest in entering the sewer that is politics. And success in this realm requires that backstabbing, shamelessness, lying, and manipulation become an art form.

She wasn't the type to stab you in the back. She stabbed you right there in the front so you could watch all the blood gushing out.

You may need two hands to fight someone, but only one to stab them in the back. (Yarvi)

Dans leur dos

In their mutual desire for a professional army and a strong central authority that would mitigate local rivalries, the two men felt the first stirrings of an impulse that would someday culminate in the Constitution and the Federalist party. Like Washington, Hamilton was scandalized by the dissension and cowardice, the backstabbing and avarice, of the politicians in Philadelphia while soldiers were dying in the field.

The most civilized place in the world," murmured Father Yarvi. "Though that mostly means folk prefer to stab each other in the back than in the front.

With friends like that, who needs enemies?

A stranger stabs you in the front. A friend stabs you in the back. A boyfriend stabs you in the heart. Best friends poke each other with straws.

The thing I'm having a hard time with are the Christians who will stab you in the back in a wink.