Quotes About Betrayal

Once your network has lost confidence in you, you're headed for the dustbin of history.

I didn't appreciate how special and sometimes strange my CIA world was - until it suddenly and spectacularly ended in a newspaper column.

There is no doubt in my mind at all. The Duke of Edinburgh has had affairs - yes, full-blown affairs, and more than one.

Because you believed him when he promised it wouldn't happen again. Because he gradually grew more violent and controlling over time, slowly enough that you felt like he would change until you finally realized he wouldn't.

Vertrouw mensen,' zei hij tegen me, 'totdat ze je een reden geven om dat niet te doen. En ga daarna nooit meer met je rug naar ze toe staan.

Cuando alguien te engaña, la primera vez es culpa suya, la segunda vez, la culpa es tuya.

Confía en las personas —me aconsejaba— hasta que te den motivos para no hacerlo. Y entonces no vuelvas a fiarte nunca.

Sophie was beginning to realize that there was nothing to be done about actors: they would always end up sleeping with each other. They had always done so, and they probably always would.

He's a sweet man whose crime was that he didn't love me quite enough, and because this wasn't much of a crime I had to make up some bigger ones.

que el que ayuda a otro a hacerse poderoso causa su propia ruina.

Except for when I was very little and thought that being an engineer meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him in the seat of an engine car the color of coal, a string of shiny passenger cars trailing behind. One day my father laughed and corrected me. Everything snapped into focus. It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.

It's one of those unforgettable moments that happen as a child, when you discover that all along the world has been betraying you.

You hear a sound and it's truth turning in its grave.

Don't be a fool, you've let yourself fall apart, the pieces have got lost, and now there's nothing left to give, you can't hide it forever, sooner or later she'll figure out the truth: you're a shell of a man, all she has to do is knock against you to find out you're empty.

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it....

It's hard to tell you has your back from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.

We must be sure that when you have won victory, you will not have to tell your children that you fought in vain—that you were betrayed. We must be sure that in your homes there will not be want—that in your schools only the living truth will be taught—that in your churches there may be preached without fear a faith in which men may deeply believe.

More troubling still had been the sickening revelation, in April 1943, that more than twenty thousand Polish officers, police officers, and members of the intelligentsia had, on Stalin's orders, been murdered in cold blood by Soviet occupation forces in 1940, during the time of the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact. That disclosure — the decomposing Polish bodies unearthed by the Germans in the Katyn forest near the Russian city of Smolensk, but the Soviets denying culpability

What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works.

First time, shame on you," she began, her husky tone serious. "Second time, shame on me.

God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you.

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

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

That's the catch about betrayal, of course: that it feels good, that there's something immensely pleasurable about moving from a complicated relationship which involves minor atrocities on both sides to a nice, neat, simple one where one person has done something so horrible and unforgivable that the other person is immediately absolved of all the low-grade sins of sloth, envy, gluttony, avarice and I forget the other three.