Quotes About Betrayal

Such wickedness, to marry in secret and then deny it. I was told English aristocrats only have time for dogs and horses. This is clearly not true.

Othello goes through in his mind before he develops jealousy and anger

The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family: We remain connected, even against our wills.

Marie-Laure sits among them, wondering who will cave, who will tattle, who will be the bravest. Who will lie on her back and let her last breath curl up to the ceiling as a curse upon the invaders.

Toward midnight he sat in the Raney Playground swings with his broken, disloyal heart continuing to pump behind his ribs. Maybe fifty feet away his daughter was in her bed, reeling, thinking it out, a thousand betrayals and loves and resentments riding the synapses between brain and heart and back again.

wouldn't even insult my mattress by giving it a

Werner is succeeding. He is being loyal. He is being what everybody agrees is good. And yet every time he wakes and buttons his tunic, he feels he is betraying something.

You want to know? What it's like? To prop up the dam? To keep your fingers plugged in its cracks? To feel like every single breath that passes is another betrayal, another step farther away from what you were and where you were and who you were, another step deeper into the darkness

It was about such people that he complained to Atticus: "I will only say this, and I believe you know I am right: it was not enemies but jealous friends who ruined me.

at Rome before midday by Marcus Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and others.

but to bear in mind what Caesar, who had eliminated all his enemies, suffered at the hands of his closest friends.

He was pleased to receive his colleague's ships, but had no serious intention of finding him his legions.

Men pressed around Caesar in a tight scrum as each tried to stab him;

Hirtius rode into Antony's camp and was struck down and killed fighting around the commander's tent.

This was a disastrous error in judgment, as Brutus and his friends now realized.

the established legions would refuse to fight under the command of one of Julius Caesar's assassins.

offered his life for his son's, and was executed. The son then committed suicide. Octavian watched them both die.

he had the head chopped off and sent to Rome to be thrown at the feet of a statue of Julius Caesar.

and wanted to replace Tiberius with Agrippa, and that Livia acted to defeat him.

Then his colleague Pedius won approval for a bill that made Caesar's killing a crime

As many as three hundred senators were butchered—among them Cicero

KILLING FIELDS 43–42 B.C.

the two men agreed on a plan that employed speed and surprise to turn the tables on Antony and trap him.

Antony and other supporters of Caesar fled to their commander, who was waiting at the little