Quotes About Betrayal

Trust was such a delicate thing, so fragile, not easily earned and harder to repair.

First comes the Sanhedrim in Jerusalem plotting against the life of the Just One. Then comes Mary at Bethany, in her unutterable love breaking her alabaster box, and pouring its contents on the head and feet of her beloved Lord. Last comes Judas, offering to sell his Master for less than Mary wasted on a useless act of affection! Hatred and baseness on either hand, and true love in the midst.

Without remorse, you calmly thrust your knife Into each heart that shared its love with you.

Waiters and escorts both know that indiscretion is a career-ending move. You reveal a secret only if you are never going back again.

Poison, in my experience, is always hidden; it seems to me we never know its color.

Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people.

An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth. No. 75

bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.

Bloody bullocks, beggin' your pardon, gentlemen, but they'd take the wooden leg off a cripple to kindle a fire!

Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside,A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with Gods, his lov'd idea lies: O write it not, my hand - the name appears Already written - wash it out, my tears! In vain lost Eloisa weeps and prays, Her heart still dictates, and her hand obeyes.

So when the faithful pencil has design'd Some bright idea of the master's mind, Where a new world leaps out at his command, And ready Nature waits upon his hand; When the ripe colours soften and unite, And sweetly melt into just shade and light; When mellowing years their full perfection give, And each bold figure just begins to live, The treacherous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away!

But whom to love? To trust and treasure? Who won't betray us in the end? And who'll be kind enough to measure Our words and deeds as we intend?

The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in god and woman.

Even paradise had its serpent.

And like a soprano shattering glass, Juliet heard something snap deep inside. It was the sound of her heart breaking.

I won't risk it again. I won't destroy myself for you

The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another

no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. There's no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.

Vorga, I kill you filthy.

Do Not Trifle with Love.

he, that same man, after having abandoned her, finds her after a night of orgie, pale and leaden, forever lost, with hunger on her lips and prostitution in her heart.