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Quotes About Betrayal

But instead of all that, here he was—the rich husband of an unfaithful wife, a retired gentleman-in-waiting, who liked to eat, drink, and, unbuttoning himself, to denounce the government a little, a member of the Moscow English Club, and a universally beloved member of Moscow society.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Stepan Arkadyevitch, like all unfaithful husbands indeed, was very solicitous for his wife's comfort
~ Leo Tolstoy
Prince Vasili came next. He staggered to the sofa on which Pierre was sitting and dropped onto it, covering his face with his hand. Pierre noticed that he was pale and that his jaw quivered and shook as if in an ague.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Now he experienced a feeling akin to that of a man who, while calmly crossing a bridge over a precipice, should suddenly discover that the bridge is broken, and that there is a chasm below. That chasm was life itself, the bridge that artificial life in which Aleksey Aleksandrovich had lived. For the first time the question presented itself to him of the possibility of his wife's loving someone else, and he was horrified at it.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Stavrovicha, is a selfish, vain, and unattractive creature who deserts her husband in favour of a young officer, Balashev. Her elderly, betrayed
~ Leo Tolstoy
I'm sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me the same and now you try to break my little heart.
~ Leon Redbone
We are concerned here with either real traitors or complete imbeciles. But imbecility, raised to this level, is equal to treason.
~ Leon Trotsky
Finally, one of the most recent leaders of the left wing of the Social Revolutionaries, Mstislavsky, who subsequently went over to the Bolsheviks, says of the February uprising: "The revolution caught us, the party people of those days, like the foolish virgins of the Bible, napping." It does not matter how much they resembled virgins, but it is true they were all fast asleep.
~ Leon Trotsky
And you treated my woman to a flake of your life/ And when she came back she was nobody's wife.
~ Leonard Cohen
Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth One more thin gypsy thief Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes I thought it was there for good so I never tried. And Jane came by with a lock of your hair She said that you gave it to her That night that you planned to go clear
~ Leonard Cohen
To St. Paul, stripes, stones, shipwrecks, and thorns in the flesh were religious experiences to Judas Iscariot, the daily companionship of Jesus of Nazareth was not.
~ Leonard Hodgson
The Medici created and destroyed me.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
There is no beast more cruel than man.
~ Leonid Andreyev
His mother might claim to be a loyal light in the shadows, but he was determined to shove her even further into the shadows.
~ Leonie Frieda
The fact that Isabella had failed her friend in the hour of her greatest need and effectively stolen her possessions was forgotten in her touching display of grief.
~ Leonie Frieda
Imagine you're living in a flock, and one day you find out that the others aren't sheep at all -- they're wolves.
~ Leonie Swann
Through his passion nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Through his passion nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Is there for the lover any greater cruelty than the faithlessness of his beloved?" "Oh," she countered, "so long as we love we are faithful, but you want faithfulness without love from the woman and giving of herself without pleasure Ã¢â'¬â€œ so who is the cruel one Ã¢â'¬â€œ the man or the woman?
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Each one of us is in the end a Samson, and will finally be wounded by the woman he loves, whether she wears peasant dress or a fur pelt
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Does it diminish your joy that I have belonged to another
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Remember that Backstabbers are sneaky,slick,seductive, and sabotaging.
~ Les Parrott
They put on a front that appears accommodating, loyal, and yes, even sacrificial. Then, without warning, they raise their knife, and by the time you see the glint of the blade, it's almost always too late.
~ Les Parrott
In all likelihood, Backstabbers are quite pleasant and supportive on the surface. But that's a mask.
~ Les Parrott