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Quotes About Betrayal

La irreligión no había sido para mí sino una forma vacía donde había resbalado mis humillaciones de pequeño campesino enriquecido, despreciado por sus camaradas burgueses. Yo la llenaba ahora con mi decepción amorosa y con un rencor casi infinito.
~ Francois Mauriac
Et c'est méchant de sa part parce qu'elle l'aime sincèrement et qu'elle est si gentille avec lui
~ France
There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
~ Frances Bacon
Everybody betrayed her, so why expect otherwise? But it turned out that distrust could fool you and endanger you, just as trust could.
~ Frances Hardinge
What's a little maiming and treachery between friends?
~ Frances Hardinge
He did not look at her. He did not need to. Over the years she had built a special palace of the mind for him, and he had helped lay every brick. Now he could feel its golden walls tumbling. If he looked into her face, he would see hurt, bewilderment and the painful, necessary birth of doubt.
~ Frances Hardinge
Mistress Gotely!" she shouted, her voice echoing blasphemously throughout the chapel. "Beth! Alys! Help me!" They would not come to her aid, she knew that. She was alone. But the other servants might hear her, and it would mean something to be remembered. She wanted them to know that she had not gone willingly or quietly. If they remembered that, she would still be something, if only a scar on their memories, a pang of guilt they tried to ignore.
~ Frances Hardinge
I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated . . .
~ Frances Hardinge
The common sense in Zouelle's words hit Neverfell like a slingshot. The last time Neverfell had appeared before Madame Appeline it had been in the role of captured thief, and the Facesmith had duly handed Neverfell over to the authorities. If there had been any chance of friendship between them, Neverfell's actions had probably killed it dead.
~ Frances Hardinge
Lies can be wrung out of a witness as easily as truth. Yes, after a few hours with the Enquiry's . . . instruments, I am sure she will be willing to swear that she had swallowed an antidote, or indeed that she had flown to the moon if that would make the pain stop. But, here and now, you can see she is telling the truth. There was no betrayal. There was no poison. There was no murder.
~ Frances Hardinge
Nobody was to be trusted. The plan that had ensnared her had been the brainchild of her protector, Maxim Childersin.
~ Frances Hardinge
I hate you!" Pen's would-be shout was muffled by breathlessness, and not-Triss realized that the younger girl was sobbing with exhaustion and rage. "I hate you! You stupid . . . Why did you have to happen? I never asked for a stupid . . . stupid . . . toothy . . . stupid . . . monster thing.
~ Frances Hardinge
the murderess of time.
~ Frances Hardinge
She doesn't want to be with either of you,' he warned. 'If she loved her boyfriend, she wouldn't have gotten involved with you, and if she loved you, she would have left her boyfriend immediately.
~ Francesc Miralles
From compromise to deceit is a small step.
~ Billy Graham
When Jesus needed friends, they left Him.
~ Billy Graham
How many homes are broken because of men and women who are unfaithful! God will not hold you guiltless! There is a day of reckoning. "Be sure your sin will find you out" (Numbers 32:23 ESV). They will find you out in your own family life here in your relationship with your mate; they will find you out in the life to come.
~ Billy Graham
Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.
~ Billy Graham
Principal Any attempt to cheat, especially with my wife, who is a dirty, dirty, tramp, and I am just gonna snap.
~ Billy Madison
Goodbye, Baby. Walter Neff (Fred McMurray) Double Indemnity
~ Billy Wilder
Wherever we went, the soldiers came to kill us, and it was all our own country. It was ours already when the Wasichus made the treaty with Red Cloud, that said it would be ours is long as grass should grow and water flow. That was only eight winter's before, and they were chasing us now because we remembered and they forgot.
~ black elk nicholas ii
I should have known earlier about President Bush, but I gave him some rope -- a lot of rope, and then he hung all of us with it. I should have known it when I heard him say "When it comes to evolution, the jury is still out." What jury, where? The Scopes Trial is over.
~ black lewis ii
The genius of Barack Obama was precisely that he reached out and over the partisan divisions. He did so explicitly. The desire of some of his present-day critics to drag him back from the centre is absurd. The espousal of centrist politics is not a betrayal. It was what he promised.
~ blair tony ii
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
~ Blaise Pascal