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Quotes About Betrayal

There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.
~ Walker Percy
Well, how about the Lennon Sisters then? They can't be much older than you are." I lied and told her one of her precious Lennon sisters—Diane, the oldest, her favorite—was having an illegitimate baby. "Pfft," she said, flicking away the possibility with the flap of her wrist. But her lip quivered and she left my room making the sign of the cross.
~ Wally Lamb
I am given up by traitors; I talk wildly . . . . I have lost my wits . . . . I and nobody else am the greatest traitor, I went myself first to the headland . . . . my own hands carried me there.
~ Walt Whitman
Slim cunning hands at rest, and cozening eyes, Under this stone one loved too wildly lies; How false she was, no granite could declare; Nor all earth's flowers, how fair.
~ Walter de La Mare
Go on with your judas ginger self
~ Walter Dean Myers
Occasionally Leonardo appended a moral lesson to the entry, such as this: "The oyster, when the moon is full, opens itself wide, and when the crab looks in he throws in a stone or seaweed and the oyster cannot close again, whereby it serves for food to that crab. This is what happens to him who opens his mouth to tell his secret. He becomes the prey of the treacherous hearer.
~ Walter Isaacson
Jobs's overwrought reaction was understandable. Sculley had once been a father figure to him. So had Mike Markkula. So had Arthur Rock. That week all three had abandoned him.
~ Walter Isaacson
All he did was blow a lousy few million and they took his company away from him." Now, Sculley reflected, he was taking Jobs's company away from him.
~ Walter Isaacson
He who is abandoned is an abandoner.
~ Walter Isaacson
Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.
~ Walter Isaacson
If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.
~ Walter Isaacson
Purple Noon.
~ Walter Kirn
Clark was bulging with lies when I saw him two weeks later. They danced out of his mouth as though they'd been cooped up there and were glad for a chance to stretch their legs.
~ Walter Kirn
Mouse was the truest friend I ever had. And if there is such a thing as true evil, he was that too.
~ Walter Mosley
It's the strongest love that makes the greatest treachery. The worst thing you can say to somebody is that you will be there no matter what and then fail to show.
~ Walter Mosley
I always talk about down home like it really was home. Like everybody who looked like me and talked like me really cared about me. I knew that life was hard, but I hoped that if someone stole from me it would be because they were hungry and needed it. But some people will tear you down just to see you fall. They'll do it even if your loss is their own.
~ Walter Mosley
It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.
~ Walter Scott
You remind me at this moment," said the young lady, resuming her lively and indifferent manner, "of the fairy tale, where the man finds all the money which he had carried to market suddenly changed into pieces of slate. I have cried down and ruined your whole stock of complimentary discourse by one unlucky observation.
~ Walter Scott
There goes a true-bred Campbell, said Montrose, as the envoy departed, for they are ever fair and false.
~ Walter Scott
The gay world has been kept in hot water lately by the impudent publication of the celebrated Harriet Wilson, — — from earliest possibility, I suppose, who lived with half the gay world at hack and manger, and now obliges such as will not pay hushmoney with a history of whatever she
~ Walter Scott
Traitor's word never yet hurt honest cause
~ Walter Scott
Quinn: "Shiiiiiiit. I nearly killed him." Blay: "Well, arguably you were being gallant." referring to strangling Saxton for cheating on Blay. Black Dagger Brotherhood #11 Lover at Last
~ Ward J. R.
Ain't no Jesus in Snowtown, Detective.
~ Warren Ellis
Trust may take forever to build but can be destroyed in less then a heartbeat.
~ Wayne L. Misner