Quotes About Betrayal

I just wanted to see if you traitors would dare to face me," Galdran said, his caustic voice making me feel sick inside. Sick--and angry. The Marquis bowed low over his horse's withers, every line of his body indicative of irony. Galdran's face flushed dark purple. "I confess," Shevraeth drawled, "we had a small wager on whether you would have the courage to face us.

But can love born of revenge avoid turning into cruel sport?

What Josie took for exposure on Caro's part had been an offering of trust - a test the girl had failed, over and over. Trust would be offered repeatedly, but not indefinitely.

He, who considered himself a man, had become, with his first wife, vulnerable as an intimidated child. She acted on him like a wasting disease: all healthy links to life were infidelities to be rescinded.

I don't like the younger sister," Theodora said. "First she stole her sister's lover, and then she tried to steal her sister's dishes. No, I don't like her.

I am going to put death in all their food and watch them die." Constance stirred, and the leaves rustled. "The way you did before?" she asked. It had never been spoken of between us, not once in six years. "Yes," I said after a minute, "the way I did before.

Remember, Natalie, your enemies will always come from the same place your friends do.

Sie schamloser Graubart«, sagte Luke. »Da opfern Sie mich für eine Tasse Kaffee!

Only human beings and rabid animals turn on their own kind

I don't like the younger sister,' Theodora said. 'First she stole her sister's lover, and then she tried to steal her sister's dishes.

There's no denying, for instance, that my clever Julia is a fool and my lovely Arabella is a—    Flirt, Mrs. Halloran said.    Well, I was going to say tart, but it's your house, after all.

I'm her friend. What have I got against her? But on the other hand, she didn't do right by me.

I weep to think of all the tricks you've played on me since I've had you for a husband …and now, as if all that weren't enough, you decide to become a circus clown. A penny-a-liner! And to think there are even worse fools than you who will pay to read what you write!

You say you're going like a house afire, Mendl? Why don't you jump into the flames! I wouldn't come see you in Boiberik if you were on your deathbed!

Believe me, if all wives whose husbands had affairs left them, we would only have divorced women in this country.

Constantin Demiris had arranged with the authorities for her body to be buried on the grounds of the cemetery on Psara, his private island in the Aegean. Everyone had remarked on what a beautiful, sentimental gesture it was. In fact, Demiris had arranged for the burial plot to be there so that he could have the exquisite pleasure of walking over the bitch's grave.

They had lied. Time was not a friend that healed all wounds ;it was the enemy that ravaged and murdered youth.

A thousand times more crimes were commited in the name of love, than in the name of hate.

It will be a honeymoon,Demiris told her.She got the honeymoon but not the wedding.

A thousand times more crimes have been committed in the name of love than in the name of hate.

Colui che ha occhi per vedere e orecchi per sentire deve convincersi che nessun mortale sa mantenere un segreto: se le sue labbra sono serrate parlerà con la punta delle dita, il suo tradirsi trasuderà da ogni poro.

You must have known it yourself, Erlend- a thicket of briers and thorns and nettles had you sowed around you- how could you draw a young maid in to your side and she not be torn and wounded and bleeding-" –p. 93

The French had handed the information from Schmidt to the Poles because they believed it to be of no value, but the Poles had proved them wrong.

I am a liar!