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Quotes About Betrayal

machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves
~ William Shakespeare
Mother, you have my father much offended.
~ William Shakespeare
This hand shall never more come near thee with such friendship
~ William Shakespeare
I hope my noble lord esteems me honest. OTHELLO: Oh, ay, as summer flies are in the shambles, That quicken even with blowing. O thou weed, Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born! DESDEMONA: Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed? OTHELLO: Was this fair paper, this most goodly book, Made to write "whore" upon?
~ William Shakespeare
Thou poisonous slave, got by the devil himself Upon thy wicked dam
~ William Shakespeare
Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal the mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne.
~ William Shakespeare
I will go tell him of Hermia's flight: Then to the wood will he to-morrow night Pursue her; and for this intelligence If I have thanks, it is a dear expense: But herein mean I to enrich my pain, To have his sight thither and back again.
~ William Shakespeare
Now, Hamlet, where's Polonius? HAMLET At supper. KING CLAUDIUS At supper! where? HAMLET Not where he eats, but where he is eaten: a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet: we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots: your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table: that's the end.
~ William Shakespeare
I will speak daggers to her, but use none.
~ William Shakespeare
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain: At least I am sure, it may be so in Denmark:
~ William Shakespeare
Strike as thou didst at Caesar; for I know / When though didst hate him worst, thou loved'st him better / Than ever thou loved'st Cassius.
~ William Shakespeare
What, you egg? Young fry of treachery!
~ William Shakespeare
God help the noble Claudio! if he have caught the Benedick, it will cost him a thousand pound ere a' be cured.
~ William Shakespeare
How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!
~ William Shakespeare
Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness,/ Wherein the...enemy does much.
~ William Shakespeare
Let him forever go!-Let him not, Charmian. Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon, The other way he's a Mars.
~ William Shakespeare
A kiss, long as my exile, as sweet as my revenge.
~ William Shakespeare
How now, my love? Why is your cheek so pale? How chance the roses there do fade so fast? Her. Belike for want of rain, which I could well beteem them from the tempest of my eyes.
~ William Shakespeare
I'll sacrifice the lamb that I do love   To spite a raven's heart within a dove.
~ William Shakespeare
And Caesar shall go forth.
~ William Shakespeare
What is a traitor? Lady Macduff: Why, one that swears and lies. Son: And be all traitors that do so? Lady Macduff: Everyone that does so is a traitor, and must be hanged. Son: Who must hang them? Lady Macduff Why, the honest men. Son: Then the liars and swearers are fools; for there are liars and swearers enow to beat the honest men, and hang up them.
~ William Shakespeare
She is your treasure, she must have a husband; I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day And for your love to her lead apes in hell. Talk not to me: I will go sit and weep Till I can find occasion of revenge.
~ William Shakespeare
Thou most lying slave, Whom stripes may move, not kindness!
~ William Shakespeare
But cruel are the times, when we are traitors, And do not know ourselves; when we hold rumour From what we fear, yet know not what we fear, But float upon a wild and violent sea Each way and none
~ William Shakespeare