Quotes About Betrayal

Oh, they have robbed me of the hope. My spirit held so dear; They will not let me hear that voice My soul delights to hear. They will not let me see that face I so delight to see; And they have taken all thy smiles. And all thy love from me.

you have blighted the promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness!

You have blighted the freshness and promise of youth, and made my life a wilderness!

Its easily done, replied he, with a faint smile, bordering on a sneer: to abuse your friend and knock him on the head, without any assignable cause, and then tell him the deed was not quite correct, but it's no matter whether he pardons it or not.

Chapter 40, the centre of violation, in which Huntingdon rakes through her diary, discovers her savings and has her paintings burned, a spiritual rape.

he still maintained that she had done wrong to leave her husband; it was a violation of her sacred duties as a wife, and a tempting of Providence by laying herself open to temptation; and nothing short of bodily ill--usage (and that of no trifling nature) could excuse such a step - nor even that, for in such a case she ought to appeal to the laws for portection.

Her husband, however, upon this second misdemeanour, immediately sought and obtained a divorce, and, not long after, married again.

From henceforth he is dead to me. I want to know nothing. He has deserted me at my hardest time in my hour of need & I want to forget him tho' I wish him every joy & luck & happiness in this life…

Just as my heart sinks every time I hear her harsh words, that's how her heart sank when she realised there was no more love between us.

Dussel promised her the moon, but, as usual, we haven't seen so much as a beam.

It's hard to tell the truth, and yet the truth is that she's the one who's rejected me.

Dussel promised her the moon, but, as usual, we haven't seen so much as a beam.

Family can hurt you much more than outsiders can.

seed of a syphilitic she-camel

One renegade can discredit a hundred honest injuns.

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.

You can like people and still betray them, if it was for a cause you believed in passionately enough. You have to betray other people rather than betray yourself--if that's what it comes to.

It isn't always the value of what is taken that makes us hate. Sometimes it's just the fact that we've been robbed.

My family, my country—right or wrong.' It is the ultimate betrayal of God.

If it were true, then Kristian had a far deeper and more urgent motive for killing Elissa than any of them had realized before.

He stopped. He could see in her face that she had not even thought of that sort of love. The very idea of a consuming sexual passion which culminated in murder was something that had not occurred to her with regard to herself and the general.

the cuckolded husband but there was also laughter, a pity profoundly scarred with cruelty, relief that it was someone else. There were ribald jokes, slurs against manhood—and that was the ultimate insult, the unbearable thing that robbed the stuff of life but denied the peace of death. The victim was still sentient and raw to all the awareness of his loss. He would never have brought that upon himself, never—not in hot temper nor in cold revenge.

Es terrible traicionar a tu país. Me cuesta imaginar algo peor, salvo quizá traicionarte a ti mismo. El

To lose someone you love because they die is a sweet ache. To lose everything good you believed of them is a pain that stains all they left behind. It poisons the very air of memory. Ballinger