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Quotes About Backstabbing

People talk mostly against a person behind his back only if he lacks ability but with jacks has attained the position of an authority
~ Anuj Somany
I don't think any of us ever trusted Nashville. When you're in that town you know everybody is talking about everybody else. Everybody is wishing for the other guy to fail.
~ Martie Maguire
People will knife you in the back for a stinking crumb and then go on with their lives as if you're nothing but a worthless roach. (Aiden)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
People are vicious. They will turn on you.
~ Elizabeth Chandler
The people who talk behind your back are destined to stay there.
~ Elizabeth Rudnick
You dirty, double-crossing rat.
~ James Cagney
treachery can't be forgiven.
~ Mario Puzo
The cry of "Traitor!" was not a local voice only, but a bewildered people's explanation of the inexplicable. It was the eternal cry of conspiracy, of stab in the back.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
What I'm primarily saying,' he says, 'is that this is a time for knowledge assimilation, not backstabbing. We learned a lesson, you and I. We personally grew. Gratitude for this growth is an appropriate response. Gratitude, and being careful never to make the same mistake twice.
~ George Saunders
My workers are efficient - instead of trusting those backstabbing, trust those who work honestly.
~ H. D. Kumaraswamy
Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.
~ David Mamet
Some people have a perverse talent; they're capable of shooting themselves in the foot and stabbing themselves in the back at the exact same time.
~ Mardy Grothe
Hit that back-stabber where it hurts, right in the ambition.
~ Eoin Colfer
Quisling, vague, inefficient, and fanatical, won the rare distinction of being so closely associated with a single characteristic—treachery—that a noun was created in his name. At
~ Ben Macintyre
But what really counts isn't what people say to your face. It's what they say behind your back.
~ Etgar Keret
Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the back I couldn't trust my own homies just a bunch of dirty rats
~ Tupac Shakur
Eddie Drood: Is this why we become agents? To play games, to chase after secrets that are rarely worth all the blood spilled on their behalf...To end up stabbed in the back, just when you thought you'd won, bleeding out in some nameless backstreet...With most people never even knowing who you were, or what you did, or why it mattered?
~ Simon R. Green
Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.
~ Lauren Conrad
On this tenth day of June 1940 the hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
~ Aeschylus
The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back.
~ Timbaland
Don't come to me and smile and then stab me behind my back.
~ Larry Johnson
I don't know if I was popular in high school. My school was actually not really clique-y, which was nice. I went to a very artsy school, so everyone was kind of friends with each other. I was trying to be popular more, like, in junior high and elementary school and dealt with all that backstabbing and drama.
~ Lili Simmons
Everyone wanted to see [him] fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army of sycophants had turned into a horde of hungry hyenas
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon