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Quotes About Betrayal

When the enemy enthusiastically embraces you, and the fellow countrymen bitterly reject you, it is hard not to wonder if you are, in fact, a traitor.
~ le guin ursula k ii
I thought that you had changed me, but it was just a trick. You sawing back and forth above my chest till I was cut in half, dark magician.
~ lederer katy
So the fact that you're sleeping with Raylene's ex, and accusing her of being too crazy to lead the fight for the causes she cares about, must feel like a double betrayal to her.
~ Lee Goldberg
Yeah," Snell said, waving a Ferrari past the truck but looking at Eve as he did it, "the same people you're giving blow jobs to every day to get your TV show. The only difference between you and Detective Garvey is that he earned his badge and doesn't have to betray other cops to get ahead.
~ Lee Goldberg
There was a brief flash of anger in Josie's eyes. "I thought Sabrina kept my name out of it. She'd promised that she would." "She kept her word, but you went with her to meet an artist. She wanted him to draw a sketch of the tattoo you saw on your attackers. He mentioned your name to me.
~ Lee Goldberg
Why? Because you seduced my mother into bed with empty promises of big acting jobs, got her pregnant, and walked away without paying a dime of child support
~ Lee Goldberg
men were ruined and families were destroyed by Ronin. She's the only person in the department I don't trust to have my back. Nobody does.
~ Lee Goldberg
The rape was horrible, but being ignored by you was like being violated again," Albert said, his anger building once more. "It tore her apart.
~ Lee Goldberg
But Daisy saw the colour ebb from his face, the light leave his eyes, and reached him first, and it was Daisy who caught him as he fell.
~ Lee Langley
What else exhausts like sustained deception?
~ Leif Enger
And it will betray its worshipers, leaving them defenseless in the face of a tomorrow that will surely come. It may be a slow coming, and a long one, but come it will, and all their desperation will not stop it. Nothing will stop it. "I
~ Leigh Brackett
Later when we became friends she told me that being a viper was lucrative.
~ Leila Aboulela
As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a sad fact, but it's true. A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know?
~ Lemmy Kilmister
For Beatrice, our love broke my heart, and stopped yours.
~ Lemony Snicket
It is true, of course, that there is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time. You might know someone for several years, for instance, and trust him completely as your friend, but circumstances could change and he could become very hungry, and before you knew it you could be boiling in a soup pot, because there is no way of knowing for sure.
~ Lemony Snicket
Besides getting several paper cuts in the same day or receiving the news that someone in your family has betrayed you to your enemies, one of the most unpleasant experiences in life is a job interview.
~ Lemony Snicket
I myself fell in love with a wonderful women who was so charming and intelligent that I trusted that she would be my bride, but there was no way of knowing for sure, and all too soon circumstances changed and she ended up marrying someone else, all because of something she read in The Daily Punctilio.
~ Lemony Snicket
I once threw myself down a flight of stairs rather than face even one moment with a milliner, at whose shop I quit working after discovering the sinister truth about her berets, only to find that the paramedic who repaired my fractured arm was a man who had fired me from a job playing accordion in his orchestra after only two and half performances of a certain opera.
~ Lemony Snicket
My love: Our love breaks my heart. And stopped yours.
~ Lemony Snicket
How could she live?" he asked. "She betrayed me. She betrayed all of us. How could someone so wonderful do something so terrible?
~ Lemony Snicket
Busheney," Sunny said, which meant something along the lines of, "You're an evil man with no concern whatsoever for other people.
~ Lemony Snicket
A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery.
~ lenin vladimir iv
The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted -- or rather tend to be corrupted -- by the conditions of capitalism and betray a tendency to become bureaucrats, i.e., privileged persons divorced from the people and standing above the people.
~ lenin vladimir iv
I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible.
~ Leo Tolstoy