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Quotes About Betrayal

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same.
~ Richard Nixon
Judas needed the money for a sick friend.
~ Graffiti
Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
~ Sam Goldwyn
We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth, and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.
~ James Baldwin
The worst hatred is that of relatives.
~ Tacitus
We are betrayed by what is false within.
~ George Meredith
The cruellest lies are often told in silence.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
Be silent and safe - silence never betrays you.
~ John Boyle O'Reilly
I am a man More sinn'd against than sinning.
~ William Shakespeare
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.
~ Douglas Jerrold
For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell, whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts.
~ Homer
Beware of him that telleth tales.
~ Anonymous
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child.
~ William Shakespeare
A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!
~ William Shakespeare
Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.
~ William Shakespeare
Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
~ Livy
Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!)
~ William Shakespeare
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
~ Bible
A single word often betrays a great design.
~ Jean Baptiste Racine
I was wounded in the house of my friends.
~ Old Testament Zechariah
There is one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.
~ Joan Didion
Hypocrites are double-edged knives.
~ Haitian proverb
I had loved one man most of life only to have him leave me not once or twice but four times for someone else.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
the form of gossip, betrayal, and unwarranted judgment. Women are also more prone than men to compare themselves to one another. We often measure our value and worth by comparing ourselves to another woman's weight, breast size, complexion, career, talents, financial status, intellect, personal style, marital status, and every other aspect of their lives.
~ Iyanla Vanzant