Quotes About Betrayal

I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.

To our horror, the very neighbor whom we had for decades thought of as the best natured and hardest working and, we always thought, the most contented of all our neighbors has turned out to be a murderer.

The feminine is treacherous by its very nature. It undermines and hollows out. It's poison for the masculine brain, for the brain as a whole, for the masculine.

Husbands who have been deceived and lied to and made to look fools have for centuries fled to South America, never to return. It's a tradition that goes back a long way.

Revolutions inevitably fail, he tells us, because those who come to power are corrupted by it and reject the values and principles they initially embraced.

It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.

When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

To sorrow I bade good morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so constant to me, and so kind. I would deceive her, And so leave her, But ah! she is so constant and so kind

Three Leahs to get to One Rachel.

you temptress,Tess; you dear damned witch of Babylon- I could not resist you as soon as I met you again.

Hate him she did not quite; but he was dust and ashes to her...

You are nothing to me—nothing, said Troy, heartlessly. A ceremony before a priest doesn't make a marriage. I am not morally yours.

Why did Troy not leave my treasure alone?

you have torn my life all to pieces.. made me a victim, a caged bird!

Perhaps you are making a cat's paw of me with Phillotson all this time. Upon my word it almost seems so--to see you sitting up there so prim.

You were nothing to me once, and I was contented; you are now nothing to me again, and how different the second nothing is from the first! Would to God you had never taken me up, since it was only to throw me down!

The cruelty of fooled honesty is often great after enlightenment.

To adorn her in somebody else's eyes; never again in mine.

Tess shrank into herself as if she had been struck. Often enough had he tried to reach those lips against her consent—often had he said gaily that her mouth and breath tasted of the butter and eggs and milk and honey on which she mainly lived, that he drew sustenance from them, and other follies of that sort. But he did not care for them now.

The reason of that is, she said eagerly, that he goes in privately by the old tower door, just when the service commences, and sits at the back of the gallery. He told me so. This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel ears like the thirteenth stroke of crazy clock. It was not only received with utter incredulity as regarded itself, but threw a doubt on all the assurances that had preceded it.

we know very well women scarcely ever jilt men; 'tis men who jilt us.

While there's life there's hope is a conviction not so entirely unknown to the betrayed as some amiable theorists would have us believe.

there's life there's hope is a conviction not so entirely unknown to the betrayed as some amiable theorists would have us believe.