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Quotes About Betrayal

My friends, there are no friends.
~ Coco Chanel
Nigga couldn't tell the truth if there was a gun to his head.
~ Unknown
Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut -- Animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph... Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?
~ Colette
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
~ Colette
i heard on their lips the language of passion, of betrayal and jealousy, and sometimes despair - languages with which I was all too familiar.
~ Colette
It was now or never. When he was sure that she was engrossed in her work, he quickly took the small bottle of poison from his pocket and poured it into his water flask, making sure that his back was to Morgana. He had to concentrate to stop his hands from shaking; the enormity of what he was doing made him tremble.
~ Unknown
Honesty can be a dirty gift. It can muddy a sparkling stream of memories.
~ Unknown
Wives invariably flourish when deserted; it is the deserting male who often ends in disaster. (William McFee)
~ Colin Dexter
J?dru?! Ran twoich niegodnam ca?owa?.
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the "big canoe" of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the viper whose sting is destined to poison all their joys.
~ Herman Melville
Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
~ Hermann Hesse
Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.
~ Hesiod
Are you afraid of other people? I know that by keeping others at a distance you avoid a betrayal of your trust, but you must endure the loneliness. Man can never completely erase this sadness, because all men are fundamentally alone. Pain is something man must carry in his heart, and since the heart feels pain so easily, some believe that life is pain.
~ Hideaki Anno
Love is so great... So why does it have to go so wrong?
~ Hideyuki Kikuchi
For every time she shouted "Fire!"They only answered "Little liar!"And therefore when her aunt returned,Matilda, and the house, were burned.
~ Hilaire Belloc
The lingering laughter fled from his eyes as he realized that he'd given himself away. "Where's Fiddle now?" "Safe and cared for. Safer than you'll be if you don't answer my questions." Ping. He managed not to laugh, but it looked like a hard fight. "Dung," Makenna muttered. the knight's expression changed to startled disapproval. A prig, as he? Maybe she could use that. "I said you should let me handle this," Cogswhallop told her. "I'd have meant it.
~ Hilari Bell
I never thought honor would feel like betrayal.
~ Hilari Bell
Robespierre has never forgiven his friends the injuries he has done them, nor the kindnesses he has received from them, nor the talents some of them possess that he doesn't.
~ Hilary Mantel
God knows what risks we take, God knows all that Danton has done. God and Camille. God will keep his mouth shut.
~ Hilary Mantel
there are liasons which would put yours in the shade...
~ Hilary Mantel
Rafe shrugs. 'He is frightened of you, sir. You have outgrown him. You have gone beyond what any servant or subject should be.' It is the cardinal over again, he thinks. Wolsey was broken not for his failures, but for his successes; not for any error, but for grievances stored up, about how great he had become.
~ Hilary Mantel
Vadier (on Danton): "We'll clean up the rest of them, and leave that great stuffed turbot till the end." Danton (on Vadier): "Vadier? I'll eat his brains and use his skull to shit in.
~ Hilary Mantel
A decade of self-aggrandisement, since his daughter flashed her cunny at the king, has made Boleyn rich and settled and confident.
~ Hilary Mantel
In order not to make a liar out of Henry or Katherine, one or the other, the committee men think up circumstances in which the match may have been partly consummated, or somewhat consummated, and to do this they have to imagine every disaster and shame that can occur between a man and a woman alone in a room in the dark.
~ Hilary Mantel