Quotes About Betrayal

Thus it is plain that faults that are evident to the senses, gross and corporal, or otherwise notorious to the world, we know by our enemies sooner than by our friends and familiars

On the eleventh day the vizier was called before the sultan, the charges were repeated, and the sultan watched as the vizier was tied up and thrown to the dogs. Yet when the beasts saw him, they ran up to him with wagging tails. They nibbled affectionately at his shoulders and began playing with him.

What do you do,' he said, 'if you devote your life to discovering criminals, and it gradually occurs to you that the real criminals are the people you work for?

Cosa si può fare, disse, se si dedica la vita a smascherare i criminali, e a poco a poco ci si accorge che i veri criminali sono quelli per cui si lavora? Cosa si può fare quando tutti ti dicono di non preoccuparti perché tanto non ci puoi fare niente ed è successo molto tempo fa? Adesso Charlie lo guardava in un modo diverso. Immagino che si perda la ragione. Oppure può succedere di peggio. La si può trovare.

A comrade who deserts a comrade is a cowardly dog, and all such dogs should die a dog's death, comrade -

Go and do your business, Mr Nayler. There will soon be heads on spikes all over London. But bear in mind that one day one of them may be mine.

Robert Harris

The fortunes of war, gentlemen," he said, "can be cruel and capricious. But that is not the same as treason.

O Jesus burning on the lily cross... O night, rawhead and bloodybones night... O night betrayed by darkness not its own.

Hero! He was no hero! What did a hero get? An Aes Sedai patting you on the head before she sent you out like a hound to do it again. A noblewoman condescending to favor you with a kiss, or laying a flower on your grave.

Heart of the Dark. Ba'alzamon. Name hidden within name shrouded by name. Secret buried within secret cloaked by secret. Betrayer of Hope. Ishamael betrays all hope. Truth burns and sears. Hope fails before truth. A lie is our shield. Who can stand against the Heart of the Dark? Who can face the Betrayer of Hope? Soul of shadow, Soul of the Shadow, he is—

how could you possibly look ten women in the face and ask why they had gotten you drunk and made a game of taking your clothes off and putting you to bed?

Is it betrayal to betray a traitor?

Women lied to get a man into bed, and they lied worse once they had him there.

Politics is a foggy mire full of snakes.

He expected the other man to be dead—not many could survive a thirty-foot fall to cobblestones with another's weight on top of him—but what he had not expected was to see the fellow's dagger driven to the hilt into his own heart. Such an ordinary-looking man to have tried to kill him. Mat did not think he would even have noticed him in a crowded room.

Only a Darkfriend would betray an oath such as that one. Of course, every Seanchan was close to being a Darkfriend.

I know something of taking an enemy into your bosom. His blade goes in quicker when he is close." With

You tossed him aside for the White Tower. Why should you care if I pick him up?

Who are you? What do you want?" The black-clad man drew himself up arrogantly. "Once I was called Elan Morin Tedronai, but now—" "Betrayer of Hope.

I feel . . ." Egwene began weakly, and stopped to swallow. Her face was bloodless pale. "I . . . hurt." A tear leaked from one eye. "Of course you do," Sorilea said briskly. "That is what happens when you let yourself be caught in a man's schemes.

When she told Siuan as much, and her reasoning, the taller woman grunted sourly. "Well, I never wanted to be her friend, did I? I tell you, once I gain the shawl, if she ever tries to harm me again, I'll make her pay." "Oh, Siuan," Moiraine laughed, "Aes Sedai do not go about harming one another." But her friend would not be assuaged.

A man, he'll cheat you—but he'll do it honestly.

Maldito Rand al'Thor!» Una se enamoraba de un hombre y acababa haciendo la colada, aunque la ropa perteneciera a otro hombre.