Quotes About Betrayal

Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.

The man is the Piltdown Man of modern politics.

You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.

Behind every wolf in sheep's clothing is a trail of dead sheep - rjs

Woe to any sheep that hunts with wolves - rjs

Sometimes the truth hurts because it uncovers the lies people are living

You will come across people who always affirm by everything you say, but at the hour of need, they simply disappear! Stay away from such people or simply don't fall for their promises.

Not every smile is genuine some are just the bared fangs of wolves about to eat you - rjs

One of the most devastating experiences in human life is disillusionment.

When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.

What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant ... must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

The poor (horse) had sure got a reason to be mean, and I guess he's at the point where he figgers no human is his friend any more.

Betrayed by friendship is not a bad memorial to leave.

The Painted Veil

When you ask for a frigate, they give you a raft. Ask for sailors, they give you tavern waiters. And if you want breeches, they give you a vest. Benedict Arnold to David Hawley, August 1776 In

even in the Loyalist press inside British-occupied New York City by February 1779. The Royal Gazette, praising Benedict Arnold for being "more distinguished for valor and perseverance" than any other American, including Washington, wondered why the enemy was wasting his "military talents" and had permitted him "thus to fall into the unmerciful fangs of the executive council of Pennsylvania."1

No longer an American, Benedict Arnold was never accepted as an Englishman, either.

It would be the twentieth century before the opening of the British Headquarters Papers at the University of Michigan proved what the eighteenth century refused to believe that a young and beautiful woman was capable of helping Benedict Arnold plot the greatest conspiracy of the American Revolution and then completely fooling the astute warriors around her.

He had decided, almost hysterically it seems from the tone of this desperate letter to Washington, to turn his back on the people who had so rejected and wounded him, and make his peace with the British.

If he draw you aside from your proper end, No enemy like a bosom friend.

it is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive.