Quotes About Betrayal

Kind of guy who'd sell out his own mother to get ahead, that's for sure. Maybe he did.

The truth did not always set you free. Sometimes it bound you to dark, bloody deeds and cost you the people you loved.

Bien sûr, des inconnus peuvent vous faire du mal. Mais les gens que vous aimez font ça tellement mieux...

The only way I've been able to survive the betrayal of lovers, family members, and society is to be able to create as an artist.

A friend is like a rope, you trust it until it snaps.

Every extramarital intimate relationship has a spiritual resonance, the consequences of which can be very severe.

The fan is the one who suffers. He cheers a guy to a .350 season then watches that player sign with another team. When you destroy fan loyalties, you destroy everything.

Paolo and Francesca were not ideal readers since they confess to Dante that after the first kiss they read no more. Ideal readers would have kissed and then read on.

A man can smile and smile and be a villain.

the truth of all that the Savage now said about the worthlessness of friends who could be turned upon so slight a provocation into persecuting enemies.

the worthlessness of friends who could be turned upon so slight a provocation into persecuting enemies.

Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.

He was married once, but it was so long ago that he forgot about it. Before the war, his wife ran away with an actor, having fallen for his velvet jacket and lace cuffs.

According to the storyteller, the wedding very nearly took place, but at the most important moment, a group of perjurers participating in the case suddenly went on strike, demanding a pay increase.

The next day I discovered that my stupid ex-girlfriend Lara had the same wounds, and so did my sickly and repressed deskmate Jana. They were the same chameleon! It was then I lost my last certainties. And it is there that I finally found myself. But I didn't recognize me.

Dantes. He became Number 34.

Look, Fernand, your eyes are better than mine. I believe I see double. You know wine is a deceiver; but I should say it was two lovers walking side by side, and hand in hand. Heaven forgive me, they do not know that we can see them, and they are actually embracing!

It was curious how some people had a highly developed sense of guilt, she thought, while others had none. Some people would agonise over minor slips or mistakes on their part, while others would feel quite unmoved by their own gross acts of betrayal or dishonesty.

I suppose that's the way affairs come to an end. Somebody grabs a fork and stabs the other in the hand. And that's it

They meet these women who hang about in bars waiting for other women's husbands. This city is full of women like that." She looked at Alice, and there flowed between them a brief current of understanding. All women in Botswana were the victims of the fecklessness of men.

sometimes the people who were closest to you were also those who were furthest away.

The country must be full of liars," she continued. "There must be liars around every corner. Liars hiding behind every bush. Liars just waiting to tell lies about something. Unrepentant liars. Old liars, young liars; perhaps even babies whose first word is a lie. Perhaps

It transpired that he was an electricity thief. We would have imagined many things of which he might be guilty—many unspeakable things…

That was what the story of Goldilocks and the three bears was all about: breach of trust.