Quotes About Betrayal

quienes hacen trampas por ti también te las harán a ti.

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

The man who tells lies hides the truth, but the man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.

You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it's hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories.

Just for a handful of silver he left us,Just for a riband to stick in his coat.

It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.

Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses.

Love God and trust your feelings. Be loyal to them. Don't betray them.

All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.

The plot was foiled. The young man was hanged, having refused on principle, and despite his mother's entreaties, to ask the tsar for clemency. This event greatly helped to propel Vladimir onto his own revolutionary career. His martyred brother became his hero and the annihilation of tsarism his implacable aim.[17]

was suspected in certain quarters of informing to the police on people whom he wished to see removed from the scene.

soon after being expelled he caused the expulsion of the other members of his secret socialist group in the seminary by reporting their names to the rector. According to these sources, he admitted his action and justified it to the expelled boys on the ground that they would become good revolutionaries now that they had lost the opportunity for careers as priests.

Tweere sin to stain fair Venus' courts with blood

Thus for my own part I have more than once been deceived by the person I loved most and of whose love, above everyone else's, I have been most confident. So that I believe that it may be right to love and serve one person above all others, according to merit and worth, but never to trust so much in this tempting trap of friendship as to have cause to repent of it later on. BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE, 1478-1529

Gardez-vous de vos amis : beaucoup vous trahiront par envie. D'autres se montreront gâtés, tyranniques. Un ancien ennemi que vous engagez sera plus loyal qu'un ami parce qu'il devra faire ses preuves. En fait, vous avez plus à craindre de vos amis que de vos ennemis. Si vous n'avez pas d'ennemis, trouvez le moyen de vous en faire.

friendship and love blind every man to their interests. Nobody believes a friend can betray.

Be wary of friends—they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical

It is a deadly but common misperception to believe that by displaying and vaunting your gifts and talents, you are winning the master's affection. He may feign appreciation, but at his first opportunity he will replace you with someone less intelligent, less attractive, less threatening, just as Louis XIV replaced the sparkling Fouquet with the bland Colbert.

Envy occurs most commonly and painfully among friends. We assume that something in the course of the relationship caused the friend to turn against us. Sometimes all we experience is the betrayal, the sabotage, the ugly criticisms they throw at us, and we never understand the underlying envy that inspired these actions. What we need to grasp is something paradoxical: people who feel envy in the first place are often motivated to become our friends.

you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.

alabo, Menelao, si matas a tu esposa. / Pero, si la ves… ¡huye! / El amor y el deseo pueden cegarte. / Es la que cautiva los ojos de los hombres; / es la que desarraiga de sus cimientos las ciudades; / es la que hace arder los palacios… / ¡tan seductora es! ¡Bien la conozco, para mi desdicha; bien la conoces tú; bien la conocen todos los que por ella sucumbieron!

While a friend expects more and more favors, and seethes with jealousy, these former enemies expected nothing and got everything.

La fortaleza. Al- ta y erguida sobre la colina, la ciudadela se convierte en un símbolo de todo lo detestable del poder y la autoridad. Los ciu- dadanos lo traicionarán ante el pri- mer enemigo que aparezca. Aislada de toda comunicación y de toda inteligen- cia, la ciudadela caerá con suma facilidad.