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Quotes About Betrayal

Fake friends are like autumn leaves, they're scattered everywhere.
~ Unknown
You don't lose friends, because real friends can never be lost. You lose people masquerading as friends, and you're better for it.
~ Mandy Hale
A dream you once were, a dream of all my realities, a dream I can no longer strive for, in the wake of many betrayals.
~ C. Elizabeth
And he'd hated himself, and hated her, too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.
~ Dennis Lehane
If you want to serve the age, betray it.
~ Brendan Kennelly
I lost my innocence at age eight, so I decided to do the same to as many young girls as I could.
~ Pedro
No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.
~ Megan Abbott
What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?
~ Thomas Pynchon
Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.
~ Molly Haskell
I'm left, you're right, and she's gone. You're right, and I'm left all alone.
~ Elvis Presley
Better the anger of a friend than the kiss of an enemy.
~ Solomon
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
~ Colley Cibber
Men in rage strike those that wish them best.
~ William Shakespeare, Othello
I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.
~ George H. W. Bush
There is no one quite as angry as someone who has just lost a lot of money.
~ David Williamson
She stabbed Redford in the back with lefty scissors!
~ Wes Anderson
Duplicity thy name is woman!
~ Wilbur Smith
They were built up to great expectations, and when these could not be met, they turned against those who made the promises.
~ Wilbur Smith
I saw you high upon a tree—" She broke off, and another single sob hit her like a blow. "The white man, the one you call Henshaw, the Hawk—do not trust him." "He is as my brother, and like a brother I love him." "Then why did he not weep, Bazo, why did he not weep when he looked up at you upon the tree?
~ Wilbur Smith
Samantha was just tired and angry enough not to take it. "And I'm a woman. You didn't expect that either," she agreed. "It's a crying bastard, isn't it? But then, I bet some of your best friends
~ Wilbur Smith
ford.' He turned to Saul. 'I'm going to take
~ Wilbur Smith
Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
~ Wiliam Shakespeare
Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape from us, that evening, was beyond all question the preliminary only to his escape from London. The mark of the Brotherhood was on his arm—I felt as certain of it as if he had shown me the brand; and the betrayal of the Brotherhood was on his conscience—I had seen it in his recognition of Pesca.
~ Wilkie Collins