Quotes About Betrayal

and he captured and eventually executed the official incoming governor, Mark Antony's brother Gaius.

Mark Antony took the same line.

This development has been presented as leaving Livia and her sons, Tiberius and Drusus, out in the cold.

the most important development by far was the defection of Sextus' admiral Menodorus

The plot was betrayed, but Varus could not bring himself to distrust his friendly Germans

Quinctilius Varus, give me back my legions!" He kept the anniversary as a day of deep mourning.

It is possible that Octavian arranged for Cleopatra's murder and put about the fiction that she killed herself.

He placed confidence in a senior Parthian defector, who was in fact spying for his king.

That said, he did not want Antony destroyed

even if Antony held back the moneys due. He also put up for sale all Caesar's properties and estates.

could envision a time when the two men might need to combine against the Senate and Brutus and Cassius

The blow was devastating. The two men had been friends from boyhood

And if you can't trust family, who in this five-cent back-alley butt-fuck of a world can you trust?

Of course I can keep secrets. It's the people I tell them to who can't keep them.

Phroso made no comment on this; and the moment I had said it I heard a voice below, a voice I knew very well. 'What's the ladder here for, my friend?' it asked. 'It enables one to ascend or descend, my lord,' answered Kortes's grave voice, without the least touch of irony.

What more passed between them I do not know. I think that the Queen told my wife more, but women will sometimes keep women's secrets even from their husbands; though they love us, yet we are always in some sort the common enemy, against whom they join hands.

Let me tell you, Alex. He's a crook. He's based here in Miami. He's a nasty piece of work." "He's mexican" Troy added.

You couldn't trust anyone or anything that belonged to the world of espionage.

You know the mistake I made tonight ? It was believing in you. Well, Mr James Bond 007, whatever you were is gone. It belongs to another time. There are no more heroes any more.

These people...I've never come across anyone like them. You want the truth? They make Scorpia look like a vicar's tea party.

When people keep secrets, those secrets have a nasty way of festering. They can turn into poison. They can kill.

know the truth now and it's that Richard betrayed us,' she said. 'He looked after us. He gave us money. He got me work. He pretended to be my friend. But all along he'd been lying to us. He knew perfectly well what had happened at Long Way Hole. If he hadn't been such a coward, Charlie would still be alive.

saw it in the papers. When he took that fifty grand off Diana Cowper, it looks like he was ripping her off.' 'Maybe she knew something about him. It could have given him a reason to kill her.

but I want you to know that it was him who said what we were going to do once we got out. Once a lawyer, always a lawyer. I always heard he had a reputation for telling the truth but that wasn't what he did this time, not when it would have stayed with him for the rest of his life. And think what it would have done for his career!!! Not the Blunt Razor. The Blubbing Loser.