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Quotes About Betrayal

With friends like that, who needs enemies?
~ Joey Adams
Monogamy is defined by what it is not, just as much as by what it is," I say, "We couldn't have monogamy without infidelity the same as we couldn't have sad without happy, or down without up. By fucking around in secret, within a relationship defined as monogamous, aren't I just playing the devil in monogamy's Sunday school pageant?
~ Joey Comeau
Love is a drawer for knives to rust in.
~ Joey Comeau
He always kept his shit together. He was the fucking foam on the latte that rose above all of it. He'd been there for them whenever they needed him, always. He hadn't let his friends down. But at this moment, he resented the hell out of every one of them.
~ Joey W. Hill
You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.
~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
It would be as if the Navy Seals defected from the U.S. Army to help the Crips take over Los Angeles--and succeeded.
~ Johann Hari
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
He who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Ehre verloren, alles verloren." ("Honor lost, all lost.")
~ Johann Voss
Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I know of enough cases in which a close and, as it seemed, indissoluble relationship was annulled by the casual arrival of a third party, and one of the pair, previously joined so beautifully, driven out into empty space.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
~ Ben Kingsley
Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.
~ Barbara Pym
He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
~ Arthur Miller
In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.
~ George Meredith
The damning tho't stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, That she, whom all my life I'd loved, should be another's wife.
~ Henry Glassford Bell
Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
~ Alexander Pope
In life,there are only four kinds of girls: The girl who played with fire. The girl who opened Pandora's Box. The girl who gave Adam the apple. And the girl whose best friend stole her boyfriend.
~ Candace Bushnell
I think, for myself, life lied to me.
~ Paula White
I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!
~ Oriah Dreamer
To throw awayan honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.
~ Sophocles