Quotes About Betrayal

Satan accuses   God of falsehoods of envy, and of malignity, and our first parents   subscribe to a calumny thus vile and execrable.

In crime and enmity they lie Who sin and tell us love can die, Who say to us in slander's breath That love belongs to sin and death.

Why did you shoot him?" "You weren't around," I replied, my teeth gritted in pain. "If you'd been here I'd have shot you instead.

War merely gives people an excuse to indulge themselves further, to murder with impunity. There were wars before it, and there will be wars after it, and in between people will still fight one another and hurt one another and maim one another and betray one another, because that is what they have always done.

He had counted so carefully. He had abided by the rules, but life had cheated.

It bore an expression he'd seen before: love poisoned by disappointment.

God would even have forgiven Judas Iscariot, had he asked for His forgiveness. Judas wasn't damned for betraying Christ. He was damned for despairing, for rejecting the possibility that he might be forgiven for what he had done.

Why are you so worried about him, after all that he's done to you?

As he listened to her, David wondered again how Jonathan could have betrayed this girl. He must have been so angry and so sad, and that anger and sadness had consumed him.

If you're getting fucked, then you're getting fucked. But if you're getting fucked by someone who's smiling, then you're really getting fucked.

Fear was the key. The Crooked Man had learned that, faced with death, most men would do anything to stay alive. They would weep, beg, kill, or betray another to save their own skins. If he could make David afraid of his life, then he would give the Crooked Man what he desired.

What have you taken from me, and from what have you taken me?

A false friend is more dangerous than an open enemy. Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

You mean they killed her?" asked David. They ate her," said Brother Number One. "With porridge. That's what 'ran away and was never seen again' means in these parts. It means 'eaten.'" Um and what about 'happily ever after'?" asked David, a little uncertainly. "What does that mean?" Eaten quickly," said Brother Number One.

Poor heretics there be, Which think to establish dangerous constancy, But I have told them, 'Since you will be true, You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

Though she were true when you met her. and last till you write your letter, Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two, or three.

They have clubbed us off the streets they are stronger they are rich they hire and fire the politicians the newspapereditors the old judges the small men with reputations the collegepresidents the wardheelers (listen businessmen collegepresidents judges America will not forget her betrayers) they hire the men with guns the uniforms the policecars the patrolwagons all right you have won you will kill the brave men our friends tonight (author's punctuation)

And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy.

In friendship false, implacable in hate,Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

Your Cleopatra; Dolabella's Cleopatra; every man's Cleopatra.

All, all of a piece throughout:Thy chase had a beast in view;Thy wars brought nothing about;Thy lovers were all untrue.'Tis well an old age is out,And time to begin a new.

Secret guilt is by silence revealed.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.