Quotes About Betrayal

People are not what they seem. Some of them are sweet and kind to you, but that's not their real face.

Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.

Mercenaries, to me, were always able to switch sides because they're motivated by cash. Deadpool has always been a shifty bastard.

In life, unfortunately, I've had multiple experiences where people that I thought I could depend on have switched up, or I've caught them in lies, and their true colours have shown.

It was no easy feat becoming Dominick Dunne. Think about it. He was the most celebrated chronicler of downtrodden socialites. He feasted on their famine with little sympathy or admiration for their formerly exalted positions. Yet somehow they invited him back.

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.

He still loved her. When she'd left him, the thought of her with another man almost drove him to lunacy.

It is prudent never to trust those who have deceived us, even if only once.

The high priest Caiaphas alludes to this mechanism when he says, "It is better that one man die and that the whole nation not perish." The four accounts of the Crucifix-ion thus enable us to witness the unfolding of the working of the single victim mechanism. The sequence of events, as I have already said, resembles numerous analogous phenomena whose director and producer is Satan. The

Whatever happens in a romance novel doesn't always have to stay in one.

Y'all carried secrets because that's what I taught you, but secrets . . . just . . . fester

All of you are hurt. You're hurt because of the secrets. The secrets that have festered inside.

A town is a heartless thing, unfaithful and forgetful. It will never love you back.

Well, I've had enough. I can't trust you, Darcy O'Mara. I don't want to see you again.

Fig: "How dare you, Georgiana. You have betrayed our trust. We graciously offer the use of our house and you turn it into a den of - den of - what's it a den of , Binky?" Binky: "Lions?

On Betrayal ] ...The theme seems to be betrayal in relationships but in fact it is 'honesty' and how there are different gradations of honesty. Revealing the truth is not the only alternative to concealing it. There can be layers of carefully managed confession and revelation. Also the inaccuracy of memory itself can be a crucial factor in determining who knew what and when they knew it.

The idea of a small circle, of an exalted and loyal sect, except with a traitor infiltrated at its core, an informant who's not foreign to the sect, but constitutes an essential part of its structure---this was the true organizational form of any small society. One must act knowing that there's a traitor infiltrated in the ranks.

The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence and tenderness and sex and betrayal that benefits mankind. It is not the collection of pretty little anecdotes mouthed by pious little church mice -- it does not so much nibble at our shoe leather as it cuts to the heart and splits the marrow from the bone. It does not give us answers fitted to our small-minded questions, but truth that goes beyond what we even know to ask.

All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.

That's what made it worse, in the end ... when he found out. Nixon had lied to him, personally.

Classical Studies Question: What were the circumstances of Julius Caesar's death? Answer: Suspicious ones

LADY SNEERWELL. I'm not disappointed in Snake, I never suspected the fellow to have virtue enough to be faithful even to his own Villany.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.