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Quotes About Betrayal

Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.
~ Clara Bow
Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.
~ Robert Jordan
Let's call cheating what it is: a complete betrayal of trust.
~ Greg Behrendt
That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.
~ Roger Zelazny
You can trust a few some of the time, and most none of the time. Feel lucky if you have even one to trust all of the time.
~ Virginia C. Andrews
You need a lot of things in any organization, but one of the critical things is trust. When you lose trust and you feel betrayed, and it's not a matter of judgment.
~ Arthur Blank
And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.
~ Robert Cormier
You know what the worst thing I can imagine is? Simon had said. Not trusting someone I love.
~ Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.
~ William Shakespeare
Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.
~ Christopher Hitchens
You trust a thief when you trust a woman.
~ Hesiod
I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough.
~ Christine Keeler
For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.
~ Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses.
~ R. K. Milholland
No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.
~ Leonard Cohen
Love without trust is a river without water.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.
~ Ralph Steadman
You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.
~ Veronica Roth, Insurgent
The betrayal of people's good will, good trust that things are being done for the best and they actually ARE being done for the best.
~ Ralph Steadman
I often said that never in the history of the world did one man receive so much faith and trust as Hitler. Similary, no one has ever betrayed so many people and abused so much good faith as he did.
~ Hans Fritzsche
Do not trust the person of spite; though you have loved and tamed them, the snake will bite.
~ Morgan Brittany
For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.
~ Douglas Alexander
Trust is not established in the absence of betrayal, but in those whose betrayal is least.
~ Wes Fesler