Quotes About Betrayal

Former CIA employee Joseph Weisberg's 'An Ordinary Spy' may attract attention for how much it redacts - whether by authorial choice or by CIA design - but its power comes from the growing frustration Weisberg's fictional alter ego feels at a system designed to betray seeming innocents in the most casual and cruel manner possible.

The story of a passionate woman in a stale marriage is as old as Helen of Troy.

Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement.

Shweta was always insecure about me. When we separated, she started calling my close friends and my closest friend since fifth standard. She told her, 'My house is broken because you had an affair with my guy.'

To say that the U.K. could have no part to play in improving a justice system different to our own, but which was seeking advice on how to deliver more internationally compliant standards, was a betrayal of our international humanitarian duty.

I don't mind getting punched in the nose by a guy standing in front of me. It's getting stabbed in the back that I can't handle.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his teeth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.

For most men friendship is a faithless harbor.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers

Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.

Meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife

There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.

I caught my wife in bed with another man and I was crushed. So I said, "Get off of me, you two!"

Honest men love women; those who deceive them adore them.

A Wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousands are devour'd by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse.

When the sweet talkin's done, a man is a two face, a worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night.

The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress.

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.