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Quotes About Betrayal

he felt much better now that he'd shaken hands with the wife's best friend.
~ Maeve Binchy
It couldn't possibly mean that his latest fling might be someone from Ireland. That would be too hurtful to imagine. Or someone that he was taking to Ireland on a magic trip. Some girl that he was going to impress with his fairytale ways in the Emerald Isle.
~ Maeve Binchy
Then she wanted to tell them that Mary Paula had got herself hooked to a liar and deceiver in the international league. She wanted to say that she could tell them a story about their future brother-in-law and his deceptions that would make their pale greasy hair stand on end.
~ Maeve Binchy
She barely got to the bathroom basin in time to throw up. Louis and this girl, this girl whom he knew had been sent to his hotel by Lena.
~ Maeve Binchy
If he hadn't lied to you, he would have been a different person than he is.' She is trying to get me to see that although I thought I loved this man very completely for exactly who he was, I was in fact blind to the man he actually was, or is.
~ Maggie Nelson
He kissed her then, not gently, not tenderly. He didn't kiss her to comfort her. He took her mouth hungrily, almost savagely, wanting to punish her for having a body that tormented him, for telling him that his last kiss had meant nothing, needed to punish her for letting scum like Jack Caldwell call her honey, and for ever thinking about a man who wasn't him.
~ Maggie Osborne
dollar. It sickened me to watch it. I tried to warn anyone who
~ Maggie Sefton
Aplicamos el sesgo de veracidad —aun cuando esa decisión acarrea riesgos terribles— porque no tenemos elección. La sociedad no puede funcionar de otra manera. Y en esos casos raros en los que la confianza termina en traición, aquellos que son victimizados por el sesgo de veracidad merecen nuestra simpatía, no nuestra censura.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
I believed in you always until I couldn't anymore.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
In those rare cases where trust ends in betrayal, those victimized by default to truth, deserve our sympathy, not censure.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Black Flowers is the name of that song." Cervantes was about to beckon the man to come in. "It say:—I suffer, because your lips say only lies and they have death in a kiss.
~ Malcolm Lowry
Th soul! Ah, and did she not too have her savage and traitorous Tlaxcalans, her Cortés and her noches tristes, and, sitting within her innermost citadel in chains, drinking chocolate, her pale Moctezuma?
~ Malcolm Lowry
No one knows your success or failure best than your enemy who pretends to be your greatest friend.
~ Auliq Ice
Some people are just like snake, they will never understand your love.
~ Raaz Ojha
Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I had thought you were a better man, Mr Reid, a man of your word, but I see that you are nothing but a paltry hommelette.' 'An omelette?' 'Yes, your word is not worth a dam.
~ Amitav Ghosh
You've held the world in your hands for thousands of years and you've turned it into a horror show.
~ Amos Oz
And yet, had it not been for Judas, there might not have been a crucifixion, and had there been no crucifixion, there would have been no Christianity.
~ Amos Oz
We are all Judas. Even eighty generations later we are still Judas.
~ Amos Oz
All worlds are whores, forever betraying you and slipping away into the darkness while your soul years for them.
~ Amos Oz
Traición no es lo contrario de amor; es una de sus opciones. Traidor –creo– es quien cambia a ojos de aquellos que no pueden cambiar y no cambiarán, aquellos que odian cambiar y no pueden concebir el cambio, a pesar de que siempre quieran cambiarle a uno. En otras palabras, traidor, a ojos del fanático, es cualquiera que cambia. Y es dura la elección entre convertirse en un fanático o convertirse en un traidor.
~ Amos Oz
Kad su moji prijatelji otkrili da se družimo, po?eli su me nazivati izdajnikom. Nakon mnogo dana polako sam pronašao utjehu u misli da je izdajnik u o?ima fanatika onaj koji se usu?uje promijeniti. Svaka vrsta fanatizma, u svako vrijeme i na svakome mjestu, izražava gnušanje prema promjeni, strahuje od nje te sumnji?avo vidi promjenu zapravo kao izdaju koja izvire iz mra?nih i podlih pobuda.
~ Amos Oz
The neighborhood drug dealer kicks out his wife. He moves in a girlfriend and the wife finds out. The wife lets herself back into the house and steals a hundred thousand dollars that the drug dealer can't report missing. The drug dealer's wife goes to India, where she sends her husband a cable: The people here are poor so I gave them all your money.
~ Amy Hempel
I thought this man had long ago drained everything from my heart. But now something strong and bitter flowed and made me feel another emptiness in a place I didn't know was there. I cursed this man aloud so he could hear. You had dog eyes. You jumped and followed whoever called you. Now you chase your own tail.
~ Amy Tan