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Quotes About Betrayal

I was just a tattletale for small minds back home.
~ Peter Watts
Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.
~ Petrarch
Come of it what may, as Sinon said.
~ Phaedrus
You know, there's one other thing I don't do, Vince. I don't have dirty, unprotected sex with some money grubbing skank who eventually files a paternity suit against me, which gets me kicked out of my own house and leaves me nothing but a living, breathing national disgrace.
~ Phil Brooks
And now I realize: I was fired. They didn't disappear to watch football, or do drugs. They were getting rid of me.
~ Phil Collins
Martellus: Talking behind my back, are you? Krosp: Of course not! You're right here !
~ Phil Foglio
Agatha: I don't want anyone dying on my behalf. Not even you ! Tarvek: Why, that's the nicest thing you've said to me since Sturmhalten. Agatha: Treasure it, and get out !
~ Phil Foglio
Larana: No! Father, you can't kill him! Arguron King: Of course I can , my dear! I have minions , and soldiers and lots and lots of pointy – Larana: Argh! No! Arguron King: Oooh! I see! You want to kill him yourself ! How like your dear mother you are! Larana: Father, listen ! I don't want him killed at all ! Arguron King: I… I don't understand what you are saying …
~ Phil Foglio
For the last few years Richard had been mailing Ruth costume jewelry, which he'd told her he'd bought from some fence. Ruth kept it all in a box in the garage. Despite the accusations that her brother was a thief, it had never occurred to her that the jewelry might be stolen and she should hide it.
~ Philip Carlo
Richard Kuklinski was Roy DeMeo's Luca Brasi.
~ Philip Carlo
Before I knew that a man could kill a man, because it happens all the time. Now I know that even the person with whom you've shared food, or whom you've slept, even he can kill you with no trouble. The closest neighbor can kill you with his teeth: that is what I have Learned since the genocide, and my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of the world.
~ Philip G Zimbardo
Well, who knew? When they were elected. That they were crooks, I mean." "Pretty much everyone who didn't vote for them, Friedrich. And I suspect quite a few of the stupid fools who did. Which only makes it worse.
~ Philip Kerr
If I looked into your face / expecting a word or a laugh on the old conditions, / it would not be a friend who met my eye
~ Philip Larkin
felt personally betrayed that the man who had sung "Imagine no possessions" now had accumulated costly real estate and herds of prize cattle.
~ Philip Norman
I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.
~ Philip Pullman
I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.
~ Philip Pullman
Then, beaming at Tom and Caul, he topped up their glasses with more wine to wash down the pack of half-truths and outright lies he'd fed them
~ Philip Reeve
Everything was ruined! Pennyroyal didn't just know what she'd done, he'd written a book about it! There were paintings! Even if Pennyroyal had twisted the facts, the truth was still there, in black and white on the pages of his book. Hester Shaw had sold Anchorage to the Huntsmen. And when Tom found out …
~ Philip Reeve
The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false.
~ Philip Reeve
Jane," I said quietly. She opened her eyes, she had been far away in prayer. "Yes, Mary? Forgive me, I was praying." "If you go on flirting with the king with those sickly little smiles, one of us Boleyns is going to scratch your eyes out.
~ Philippa Gregory
I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.
~ Philippa Gregory
I'm in this state of one-way desire. I feel this desire swarming in my belly and running up my spine. But I have to constantly contain and compress it so that it doesn't betray me in front of others. Because I've already understood that desire is visible.
~ Philippe Besson
On ne trahit pas les disparus. Ce sont eux qui nous trahissent. Parce qu'ils ont fait défaut, parce qu'ils sont partis, alors qu'on avait besoin d'eux, parce qu'ils ont filé sans préavis, parce qu'ils nous laissent avec le manque et aucune solution pour y remédier. Et quand ils ont lâché notre main, qui nous en voudrait d'en saisir une autre ?
~ Philippe Besson
Sie war nicht schön, sie war schlimmer als das. (Doktor Véron über Mata Hari)
~ Philippe Collas