Quotes About Betrayal

I think Le Carre is a great modernist writer, which is to say, in a godless world, he invokes deep, almost religious ideas of betrayal, trust, faith, and that's why we love it.

Film for long enough and you are bound to see good friends have a tiff!

My parents didn't have a good relationship, my father was a cheater.

I don't have a good thing to say about Eric Bischoff or anything he ever did. Talk about the Midas touch, he was the opposite.

It's less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.

A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.

Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

and yet the courage that could risk betrayal and the bravery which was ready to encounter death, if need be, in pursuit of freedom, were essential features in the undertaking.

The first two hours of that morning were such as I never experienced before, and hope never to again. Early in the morning, we went, as usual, to the field. We were spreading manure; and all at once, while thus engaged, I was overwhelmed with an indescribable feeling, in the fulness of which I turned to Sandy, who was near by, and said, We are betrayed! Well, said he, that thought has this moment struck me. We said no more. I was never more certain of any thing.

I am not upset that you lied to me, I am upset that from now on I cannot believe you.

And if a friend does you wrong, then say: I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!

Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

He whom the flame of jealousy encompasses, will at last, like the scorpion, turn the poisoned sting against himself.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

Warning to the despised. – If you have unmistakably sunk in the estimation of men you should hold on like grim death to decorum in society with others: otherwise you will betray to them that you have sunk in your own estimation too. When a man is cynical in society it is a sign that he treats himself like a dog when he is alone.

The Good Man Better an enmity from one block than friendship held together by glue.

Cine-i înv?luit de flac?ra invidiei — acela îÅŸi întoarce pân? la urm?, ca scorpionul, acul înveninat spre sine însuÅŸi.

A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes up. ?Epigrams and Interludes, Section 79

To some people you may give not your hand, but only a slap with a paw: and I would at your paw might also have claws.

evil is revealed when there is seen what it does to one who is loved.

Judas took the money back to the temple priests. So is it always. When we give up our Lord for any earthly thing sooner or later it disgusts us; we no longer wanted it.

The crosses from the outside are bearable; the double-crosses inside are insoluble

They never loved in the first place, for love never takes back that which it gives, even in unfaithfulness.