Quotes About Betrayal

Let the truth be told--women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. 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. Tess

Whilst I would have given worlds to touch your hand, you have let a rake come in without right or ceremony and—kiss you! Heaven's mercy—kiss you!

Of the wickedness of the world he was too forgetful. To discover evil in a new friend is to most people only an additional experience: to him it was ever a surprise.

Se apoderó de ella como un gran dolor la idea de que su último pretendiente estuviese a punto de renunciar y huir. Él, que había creído en ella y se había puesto de su parte cuando el resto del mundo estaba en su contra, finalmente se había hartado como los demás, y la dejaba sola para librar sus batallas.

La ofendía y le dolía que el amor incondicional de Gabriel, que había llegado a considerar como un derecho inalienable, se le retirase de pronto de ese modo.

On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.

They had me taking the fall for the raid, Mr. Crawford. For Evelda Drumgo's death, all of it. They were like hyenas and then suddenly it stopped and they slunk away. Something drove them off." "Maybe you have an angel, Starling." "Maybe I do. What did it cost you, Mr. Crawford?

Dr. Lecter took off Krendler's runner's headband as you would remove the rubber band from a tin of caviar.

Who are you anyway?" Krendler said. "You're not Starling. You've got the spot on your face, but you're not Starling.

That was where Graham lost his faith in .38's.

On a related subject, Signore Pazzi, I must confess to you: I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.

You've met Molly?" "Yeah. She's great, I like her. She'd be glad to see me in hell with my back broken, of course.

Karla had not been a total loss—she had provided Hans-Peter with some amusement and he was able to sell both her kidneys.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

In this city he kept house with his German mistress and maintained a long affair with his Polish secretary.

Even if you do have designs on my cash, and send me down to Pluto with a blow of your oar from behind, you will have rowed me well.

la palabra es enemiga de lo misterioso y cruel delatora de lo vulgar.

What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?

Destiny awaits, a darkness latent in the texture of the summer wind. Destiny will betray you, crush your ideals, deliver you into the same detestable Bürgerlichkeit as our father, sucking at his pipe on Sunday strolls after church past the row houses by the river — dress you in the gray uniform of another family man, and without a whimper you will serve out your time, fly from pain to duty, from joy to work, from commitment to neutrality. Destiny does all this to you.

You trusted people until they betrayed you, but the alternative, trusting nobody ever, turned you into one more Clive Crouchmas, and the world had enough of them already.

His workplace has become a rat's nest of empire building, turf defense, careerism, backstabbing, betrayal, and snitchcraft.

They'd never heard it that way. Went on warming their hands at an invisible fire. Oedipa, to retaliate, stopped believing in them.

Destiny will betray you, crush your ideals, deliver you in the same detestable Bürgerlichkeit as your father, sucking at his pipe on Sunday strolls after church past the row houses by the river - dress you in the gray uniform of another family man, and without a whimper you will serve out your time, fly from pain to duty, from joy to work, from commitment to neutrality. Destiny does all this to you.

During the night, Sir Stephen vanishes from the Casino. ¶ But not before telling Slothrop that his erections are of high interest to Fitzmaurice House.