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Quotes About Betrayal

She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her.
~ Philippa Gregory
My dear, treacherous mother, " he breathed. "What have you done?
~ Grace Draven, Eidolon
Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
~ William Goldman
Movies are the shadiest business in the world.
~ Jessica Alba
In books and movies infidelity always looks so compelling, so right. Here are people who defy petty convention and are rewarded with only the tastiest bits of human experience.
~ David Sedaris
You invaded Narnia. You have no more right leading than Miraz does. Peter Pevensie: You, him, your father! Narnia's better off without the lot of you!
~ C.S. Lewis
'Each man kills the things he loves'. I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.
~ Pete Doherty
I hate the business part of music. Music is just like the streets. There's loyal and disloyal people, people saying one thing and then don't do it.
~ Schoolboy Q
He stole my music but he gave me my name.
~ Mick Jagger
It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need him; I needed him, but now I need his best friend. Rather limited scope.
~ Holly Near
People talk about nature as a mother, but to me she's always been Medea, ready and willing to slaughter her children.
~ Rachel Caine
Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.
~ Garry Kasparov
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
~ Samuel Johnson
Adultery is the injury of nature.
~ Plato
And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.
~ Mario Puzo, The Godfather
How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!
~ William Shakespeare
A sheep in wolves clothing!
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
In the cause of expedience and the quest for information, man has always been willing to trump his laws and betray his beliefs to legitimize the torture of those who do not share them.
~ Mark Allen Smith
Some of the most likeable people on the outside are capable of truly heinous things.
~ Kenneth Eade, HOA Wire
Saul was going to kill Anansi.They both knew it. Saul was going to kill Anansi and Loplop and King Rat, and Saul was going to die, all in an effort to prove that he was not his rat-father's son.
~ China Miéville, King Rat
You never put her in your heart.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
~ James Joyce
If I made peace with Russia today, I'd only attack her again tomorrow. I just couldn't help myself.
~ Adolf Hitler