Quotes About Betrayal

Nothing is more interesting in a novel or a play than an affair.

No woman has ever come up to me and said that my husband was having an affair with her.

I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.

'Angel Heart' was one of my favorite films.

Lance Armstrong did a number of things, and he gave himself cancer.

Chesnel was clear-sighted so long as Victurnien was not there before him. One by one he lost the illusions which the Marquis and his sister still fondly cherished. He saw that the young fellow could not be depended upon in the least, and wished to see him married to some modest, sensible girl of good birth, wondering within himself how a young man could mean so well and do so ill, for he made promises one day only to break them all on the next.

For women know how to say everything among themselves, and more of them are ruined by each other than corrupted by men.

What, child, your husband shuts himself into a room with naked women! And you are so simple as to believe that he draws them?

Bei Liebschaften ist es ganz so wie in den Ehen. Der Betroffene erfährt immer alles zuletzt.

David empfand die schrecklichste aller Demütigungen. Er verlor die Achtung vor seinem Vater. ~ Verlorene Illusionen

One single lie destroys the absolute confidence which to some souls is the very foundation of happiness.

misery made me unjust to you.

Madame de Bargeton iba a encontrarse en esa tesitura en la que se han encontrado multitud de mujeres que se han perdido solo después de haber sido injustamente acusadas.

That cursed ball! All the world thinks I am worth millions. Yet Lourdois had a look that was not natural; there's a snake in the grass somewhere.

Are not our feelings the most glorious part of our life? It is this partial death which, in certain delicate or powerful natures, leads to the terrible ruin produced by disenchantment, by hopes and passions betrayed.

As for me, I'm not duped by his misfortunes; he doesn't look like a man who fails to get the best of things! Somebody finds him a good place, and there he is, leading the life of a Sardanapalus with a ballet-girl, and guzzling the funds of his journal; that costs the mother another twelve thousand francs! I don't care two straws for myself, but Philippe will bring that poor woman to beggary.

Clarissa Harlowe

The true lover was suffering for the sins of the false. This inconsistency is unfortunately only to be expected so long as men do not know how many flowers are mown down in a young woman's soul by the first stroke of treachery.

they have tortured me for my sin of affection.

When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.

No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.

A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life

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He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.