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Quotes About Betrayal

to be deceived. You know why I am here." "Ah. I guess this means Dap filed a report.
~ Orson Scott Card
They gave us the stardrive we used to get to them, and the weapon we used to kill them. They gave us everything.
~ Orson Scott Card
Ezekiel wanted to cry and he wanted to scream. Cry because he couldn't believe how painful all of this must have been, how sad and lonely Beth must have been. And scream because he never had a clue about the deep pain in Beth's life.
~ Orson Scott Card
Il eut un surprenant sourire, puis il me prit dans ses bras et me dit : « Je ne pensais que tu m'avais trahi la dernière fois que tu as parti. Je ne comprenais pas, Lanik. Je pensais que si je te faisais confiance, cela signifie que tu agirais toujours comme je le voulais. ..
~ Orson Scott Card
could see or hear. That was what Alai had given him; a gift so sacred that even Ender could not be allowed
~ Orson Scott Card
Russians are never more cooperative than when they are about to betray you.
~ Orson Scott Card
I thought you were my friend. Despite himself, Ender's voice trembled. Graff looked puzzled. Whatever gave you that idea, Ender? Because you— Because you spoke nicely to me, and honestly. You didn't lie.
~ Orson Scott Card
This wasn't about killing Bean—that was just a bonus. It was about getting Bean's babies.
~ Orson Scott Card
Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword
~ Oscar Wilde
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
~ Oscar Wilde
It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
~ Oscar Wilde
You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid.
~ Oscar Wilde
You told me you had destroyed it. I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
~ Oscar Wilde
You and I will always be friends. Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.
~ Oscar Wilde
Love is easily killed.
~ Oscar Wilde
Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain. Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.
~ Oscar Wilde
True friends stab you in the front
~ Oscar Wilde
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
~ Oscar Wilde
If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)
~ Oscar Wilde
I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.
~ Oscar Wilde
At the end of the letter he said, Fuck you, you heartless bitch, you rolled up my heart and squeezed it dry. Still, when I recalled him I would always see him waiting for me under the silver high school bleachers with a smile on his face and thirty-two perfect shining white teeth.
~ Colum McCann
I didn't want to be all she had. I didn't even want to be her daughter. My blood, poisoned with our family sins, turned hot, scorched my veins. Breathing was getting difficult.
~ Connie May Fowler
There was a crack of thunder so loud I was convinced I'd been struck by lightning for lying.
~ Connie Willis
Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
~ Cormac McCarthy