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Quotes About Betrayal

Who can protect themselves from betrayal? The day your brother wakes up and plans to do you dirty, there's no defense against that.
~ Unknown
Karma will do that to you, man—give you a little sliver of hope and then slam the door in your motherfucking face.
~ Unknown
Honey in the mouth, Dagger in the stomach
~ Unknown
Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Truthful man: He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy.
~ Idries Shah
A stolen kiss is not easily returned.
~ Idries Shah
The hearts of the noble are the graves of confidences.
~ Idries Shah
Who throws away a friend throws away much of his soul.
~ Unknown
They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.
~ Ike Turner
They say he goes to it with every stable boy and every young buck at the court, and where will that get him when all know it is a sin in the eyes of the Lord, and one day the devil will stick a red-hot poker up his nether parts for all damnation.
~ Colin Falconer
I was twenty-nine years old when I died. Died; I use the term loosely. I was murdered, but within the dictates of the law and with the full approval of the king, even though he was barely eighteen years at the time.
~ Colin Falconer
because if you tell a lie when you are being eaten by a nearly dead queen, you are always struck dumb.
~ Colin Thompson
Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is what she has made of my life.
~ Unknown
with more malice than that of Judas Iscariot. Once a proud name, now it is spit upon, said with hatred and venom. Judas is gone, but Lilith roams the earth, and she builds her army of vampires. She intends to rule the world; her strength is always our weakness. It is our task, our legacy, to keep Lilith and her minions at bay.
~ Colleen Gleason
Saying his name stabbed my heart, like someone had ripped through my carefully stitched up world and exposed the infected, pulsing red tissue that I thought was healing.
~ Colleen Houck
Off with his head—so much for Buckingham.
~ Colley Cibber
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
~ Colley Cibber
Those closest to you can be your greatest enemies.
~ Unknown
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
~ Confucius
To be betrayed by those he trusted seems to have ignited a spark of vengeance in Temujin, a desire for power that never left him. His childhood experiences created the man he would become, who would not bend or allow fear or weakness in any form. He cared nothing for possessions or wealth, only that his enemies fall.
~ Conn Iggulden
When Pelitas had died, he had wept, but there were no more tears in him for the others. He had no more lies for them, no more speeches. The grand lie had been that there was anything to fight for at all.
~ Conn Iggulden
You used to be such a sweet creature. So trusting." He tched gently. "Whatever happened to you?" "You.
~ Connie Brockway
She flinched, but there was no return of warmth to her lovely, cool features. The ground seemed to open beneath Thomas. A black abyss yawned at his feet and he was teetering, off balance with no handholds in sight. "Fia, please. You can't condemn me for misjudging you. You can't throw away what we have, what we are together, because I doubted
~ Connie Brockway
like the archetype of Peter Pan. But, he writes, "we are betrayed in the very same close relationships where primal trust is possible. We can be truly betrayed only where we truly trust—by brothers, lovers, wives, husbands, not by enemies, not by strangers. The greater the love, the greater the betrayal. Trust has in it the seed of betrayal.
~ Connie Zweig
we are betrayed in the very same close relationships where primal trust is possible. We can be truly betrayed only where we truly trust—by brothers, lovers, wives, husbands, not by enemies, not by strangers. The greater the love, the greater the betrayal. Trust has in it the seed of betrayal.
~ Connie Zweig