Quotes About Betrayal

You can quicker get back a million dollars that was stolen than a word that you gave away.

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals...

Pontius Pilate! God will not let you clean your hands of this!

I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretence Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men! And now you bid me tear the light out of my eyes! I will not, I cannot! You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!

Chris: For me! Where do you live, where have you come from? For me!-- I was dying every day and you were killing my boys and you did it for me? What the hell do you think I was thinking of, the Goddamn business? Is that as far as your mind can see, the business? What is that , the world-- the business? What the hell do you mean, you did it for me? Don't you have a country? Don't you live in the world? What the hell are you? You're not even an animal, no animal kills his own, what are you?

Arthur Miller

We used to shoot a man who acted like a dog, but honor was real there, you were protecting something. But here? This is the land of the great big dogs, you don't love a man here, you eat him! That's the principle ; the only one we live by.

I could tell you things about Louis that wouldn't make you wave at him no more

Was there any love here? When he needed her, she vomited. And when you needed him, he laughed. What was unbearable is not that it fell apart, it was that there was never anything here.

But here Billy Chope arrived to demand what the 'ell Sam Cardew was doing with his gal. Now Sam was ever readier for a fight than Billy was; but the sum of Billy's half pints was large: wherefore the fight began. On the skirt of a hilarious ring Lizerunt, after some small outcry, triumphed aloud. Four days before, she had no bloke; and here she stood with two, and those two fighting for her! Here in the public gaze, on the Flats! For almost five minutes she was Helen of Troy.

To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

Better alone than amongst traitors.

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

De liefdesverdrietige is een dwaas, die zich heeft laten misleiden.

Din disimulare se nasc necredin?a,nerecuno?tin?a,tr?darea.

Enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can.

Et tu, Caesar? Then fall, Caesar. Et tu, Estha? Then fall, Estha.

Kad tu k?dam nodari p?ri, tas s?k tevi maz?k m?l?t. Neapdom?tu v?rdu d??. Tie liek cilv?kiem m?l?t tevi mazliet maz?k.

Later, looking back on the day, Ammu realised that the slightly feverish glitter in her bridegroom's eyes had not been love, or even excitement at the prospect of carnal bliss, but approximately eight large pegs of whisky. Straight. Neat.

In battle, Musa told Tilo, enemies can't break your spirit, only friends can

In some countries, some soldiers die twice

Those eyes that stared at us for one and a half hours – they were forgiving eyes, understanding eyes. We Kashmiris do not need to speak to each other any more in order to understand each other. We do terrible things to each other, we wound and betray and kill each other, but we understand each other.

men are who they are. We try to make them into something they are not, and then are astonished when they turn out not to be what we wanted. We betray ourselves.