Quotes About Betrayal

The man was a case study for those fools who believed that a politician's character didn't matter as long as he was on their side. The truth was that Kalugin had no side but his own: he was as ready to devour his supporters as he was his enemies.

And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends.

After all I've done for you? Medea kept her voice steady. 'Who was it who helped you defeat the fire-breathing oven and the great spent of the Grove of Area? Who was it who overcame Talos of Crete...' Yes, yes, yes. But...

It is easier to hide a hundred mountains from a jealous wife than one mistress.

Finally, he said, "Anything. He was capable of anything. The truth is, even though they had his name on a plaque on the wall at Langley, Frenchy sold me to the Russians in 1974, when I was in Kurdistan. There were unpleasant consequences. He had no conscience. He was a great man who was capable of great evil, not that uncommon a combination. Whatever you think he did, he probably did. And worse.

First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.

He killed them with their love

A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.

Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead

A man who lies about beer makes enemies

But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.

first the smiles, then the lies. Last comes gunfire.

I don't want to see it anymore. It's lousy. And it's a cheat. You build it all around something... set yourself on something... and then you don't want it. Isn't it too bad the great truths are all such lies?

People hurt the ones they love. That's how it is all around the world.

I understood something else, too - that one kiss didn't change a thing. Anyone can give a kiss, after all; a kiss was how Judas Iscariot showed the Romans which one was Jesus.

This tune is called "What She Don't Know Won't Hurt Her. " But it hurts somewhere. In the spaces between people, maybe.

God loves to make a man break a vow.

If loyalty was toilet paper... we'd be hard-pressed to wipe our asses, old buddy.

No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver, he thought. The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.

The fucking you got was never worth the screwing you took.

when someone says they're going to be honest with you, they are in most cases preparing to lie faster than a horse can trot.

Harold glared sullenly at him again, the eyes those of a piggy little boy who wants the whole cookie jar to himself. Ain't he going to be surprised, Stu thought, when he finds out a girl isn't a jar of cookies.

Same shit, different day, he thinks, but now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness that feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.