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Quotes About Betrayal

began to scream and yell. The SS was betraying him now as well as the army. This rage was far worse than any of his rows with Guderian. Eventually he collapsed into an armchair, drained and weeping.
~ Antony Beevor
I would have drawn and quartered him, and I hope you do, said Richard, his eyes sparkling.
~ Anya Seton
Every Reason to Lie
~ April Henry
They're all examples of self-betrayal — times when I had a sense of something I should do for others but didn't do it.
~ Arbinger Institute
Self-betrayal" 1. An act contrary to what I feel I should do for another is called an act of "self-betrayal." 2. When I betray myself, I begin to see the world in a way that justifies my self-betrayal. 3. When I see the world in a self-justifying way, my view of reality becomes distorted.
~ Arbinger Institute
That's right. The truth is, her faults seemed relevant to whether I should help her only after I failed to help her. I focused on and inflated her faults when I needed to feel justified for mine. After I betrayed myself, the truth was just the opposite of what I thought it was.
~ Arbinger Institute
Self-betrayal" 1. An act contrary to what I feel I should do for another is called an act of "self-betrayal." 2. When I betray myself, I begin to see the world in a way that justifies my self-betrayal.
~ Arbinger Institute
In the moment we cease resisting others, we're out of the box—liberated from self-justifying thoughts and feelings. This is why the way out of the box is always right before our eyes—because the people we're resisting are right before our eyes. We can stop betraying ourselves toward them—we can stop resisting the call of their humanity upon us.
~ Arbinger Institute
Exactly. My heart wouldn't have been at peace even though I was being outwardly helpful, which suggests a betrayal of my original desire to help.
~ Arbinger Institute
Self-betrayal" 1. An act contrary to what I feel I should do for another is called an act of "self-betrayal." 2. When I betray myself, I begin to see the world in a way that justifies my self-betrayal. 3. When I see the world in a self-justifying way, my view of reality becomes distorted. 4. So—when I betray myself, I enter the box. 5. Over time, certain boxes become characteristic of me, and I carry them with me.
~ Arbinger Institute
You have an affair to get for yourself what you wish would come from the person you love the most. And then you have broken her heart and she can never give you any of it ever again.
~ Ariel Levy
In her ninety-fourth year of life, Tanya still talks about her late husband with rancid disgust.
~ Ariel Levy
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
~ Aristotle
He who has many friends has no friends.
~ Aristotle
A lot happens when the prince and princess live happily ever after--the king, his father, dies, so he is now ruler and she his queen, they have their children, she conducts discreet affairs with Sir Lancelot, there are border uprisings...but still the story ended when the love toward which their destinies drove them came to mutual consciousness when they knew, each knowing the other knew, that they were meant for each other.
~ Arthur C. Danto
I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which would disgust you with human nature.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
will, we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate matters immensely." "I
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
think that it is most probable that Beddoes, pushed to desperation and believing himself to have been already betrayed, had revenged himself upon Hudson, and had fled from the country with as much money as he could lay his hands on. Those are the facts of the case, Doctor, and if they are of any use to your
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
You threatened to tell his girlfriend he'd been involved with you? (Hunter) No, I threatened to tell Brittany he made a pass at me if he didn't help. He's a slimeball I wouldn't let touch my dead philodendron. (Abbie)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Think Snake Plissken. You know…Escape From New York? You do this job, and if you don't fuck it up, we let you live. (Joe) Yeah, I've seen that movie. At the end they try to kill him anyway. (Steele) Good, then you're already acquainted with our methods. Saves me a lot of training time and you a low of surprises. (Joe)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
La última vez que había cometido ese error con una mujer le había costado el alma.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You trusted me and that I would never betray. Trust, much like a woman's love and affection, and brotherly friendship, is a sacred thing, and should never be lightly given nor abused nor taken for granted.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I always knew you were hiding something from me. I was just never sure what. Funny, I used to think it was another woman you loved, not a lunatic brother. Catherine says to Micheal.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
And now you know why I love no one. Why I never have and never will. Heed my words well. Love only destroys.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon