Quotes About Betrayal

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.

The idolatry the exists in a man's heart always wants to lead him away from his Savior and back to self-reliance no matter how pitiful that self-reliance is or how many times it has betrayed him.

What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.

Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.

Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!

Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand? I'm going out to find my woman, caught her messing around with another man.

We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

Whosoever formeth an intimacy with the enemies of his friends, does so to injure the latter. O wise man! wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.

Any man who will cheat for you will cheat against you.

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.

The true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs." You have to love Anita Blake.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

Man is very well defended against himself... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.

When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.

Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free/to be more like the man you were made to be

If she screws up this delivery, that means she's double-crossing God, who may or may not exist, and in any case who is capable of forgiveness. The Mafia definitely exists and hews to a higher standard of obedience.

IT HAD BEEN with mixed feelings that Olivia Halifax-Lin had learned that Abdallah Jones had absconded from Mindanao and turned up in Xiamen. For Olivia had just devoted the better part of a year, and MI6 had spent half a million quid, on setting her up with a false Chinese identity so that she could work under deep cover within the borders of the Middle Kingdom. And she really hated Abdallah Jones a lot. But hunting Islamic bombers was not supposed to be her job

And she knew that this one thing—the urge to boast of one's accomplishments—had betrayed more secrets and destroyed more careers than anything else.