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Quotes About Betrayal

May God protect us especially from our friends, for we shall manage to watch out for our enemies ourselves.
~ Immanuel Kant
My God! What is this country doing to me? Because it has rejected me, let us consider it coldly, let us watch it lose the honour and its life.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
He lived in a universe of light and peace. He was destined to be hated and betrayed by everyone. He then remembered his servants and snorted. It was the dawn of a new age, a warning and an omen! With difficulty, for the joints in his knees were painful, he stood up, rubbed the small of his back with his hands and went to his office to get the hammer and nails to close up the packing case. He took it down to the car himself: there was no need for the concierge to know what he was carrying.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
Weary of fire, weary of bombardment, and weary of siege, scattered groups of Chinese actually rushed out to welcome the Japanese invaders as they thundered into the city with their tanks, artillery, and trucks. Some people hung Japanese flags from their windows while others even cheered the Japanese columns as they marched through the south and west gates of the city.
~ Iris Chang
People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.
~ Iris Murdoch
Your coldness has ruined my life. All right, you didn't mean it, all right I was a schoolgirl, but you could have been kinder to someone who said they loved you, you could have been gentle and grateful.
~ Iris Murdoch
I took him for a kind of buffoon. Now I see he is a devil.
~ Iris Murdoch
It might be most dramatically effective to begin the tale at the moment when Arnold Baffin rang me up and said, Bradley, could you come round here please, I think I have just killed my wife.
~ Iris Murdoch
I'm not interested. I never liked him. He's some sort scoundrel.
~ Iris Murdoch
I said, Your brother is in bed with my wife. I added, I just took them up some wine in bed.
~ Iris Murdoch
He was extremely angry with Bellamy who had, when Clement needed him, refused to be with him.
~ Iris Murdoch
He felt, in a way so familiar as to be almost dreary, the chosen victim of the gods, the self-admitted traitor, the one destined for judgment.
~ Iris Murdoch
He felt as if he were being used, as if Willy were using him as a hard neutral surface against which to crush, like insects, the thoughts which haunted him.
~ Iris Murdoch
With a fluency that amazed me lies and treachery streamed from my lips. I was in extreme pain.
~ Iris Murdoch
All, all of a piece throughout: Thy Chase had a Beast in view: Thy Wars brought nothing about; Thy Lovers were all untrue. 'Tis well an Old Age is out, And time to begin a New. DRYDEN: THE SECULAR MASQUE
~ Iris Murdoch
Every man is betrayed by his mother.
~ Iris Murdoch
There's little enough love in the world. Why do you want to kill mine?
~ Iris Murdoch
A great sword pierced Sefton's heart. She too had loved Lucas with her own kind of deep secret love, and it seemed to her in this moment that, if he had asked her, she would have gone with him anywhere.
~ Iris Murdoch
Yes, and I'm ready to wade through blood for him, but there is no blood, only a false sickly slime — I can't live in fogs and falsehoods, I must live in the open, I must find my way out, I must find someone else, and I have found someone else.
~ Iris Murdoch
Filthy lucre! Filthy lucre!" I could hear Sammy saying, with the voice of a man cursing the woman he has ruined.
~ Iris Murdoch
Was it here, after all, that everything broke down and descended into a roaring shaft of shattered masks and crumpled rose petals and bloody feathers?
~ Iris Murdoch
Agamemnon was killed on his first night home from Troy. But Agamemnon was guilty, guilty.
~ Iris Murdoch
He really is a cunt ay the first order. Nae about that. The big problem is, he's a mate na aw. Whit kin ye dae?
~ Irvine Welsh
You pushed me away mister. You rejected me. You tricked me and spoiled things between me and my true love. I've seen you before. Long ago, just lying there as you are now. Black, broken, dying, I was glad then and I'm glad now.
~ Irvine Welsh