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Quotes About Betrayal

Como a Rosario le pegaron un tiro a quemarropa mientras le daban un beso, confundió el dolor del amor con el de la muerte.
~ Jorge Franco
Taught by centuries of living, the republic of immortal men had achieved a perfection of tolerance, almost of disdain. They knew that over an infinitely long span of time, all things happen to all men. As reward for his past and future virtues, every man merited every kindness—yet also every betrayal, as reward for his past and future iniquities.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
The ascetic, for the greater glory of God, degrades and mortifies the flesh; Judas did the same with the spirit. He renounced honor, good, peace, the Kingdom of Heaven, as others, less heroically, renounced pleasure.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Dios totalmente se hizo hombre hasta la infamia, hombre hasta la reprobación y el abismo. Para salvarnos, pudo elegir cualquiera de los destinos que traman la perpleja red de la historia; pudo ser Alejandro o Pitágoras o Rurik o Jesús; eligió un ínfimo destino: fue judas.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Lo creerás, Ariadna? —dijo Teseo—. El minotauro apenas se defendió.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Adoctrinada por un ejercicio de siglos, le república de hombres inmortales había logrado la perfección de la tolerancia y casi del desdén. Sabía que en un plazo infinito le ocurren a todo hombre todas las cosas. Por sus pasadas o futuras virtudes, todo hombre es acreedor a toda bondad, pero también a toda traición, por sus infamias del pasado o del porvenir.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
No man was worth dying over. But she was beginning to think some just might be worth killing over.
~ A. Lee Martinez
All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.
~ A.E. Housman
Tu afán traiciona tu pátina de sombría paciencia. Tu deseo se despliega con una suave caricia.
~ A.E. Samaan
Tu mirada traiciona la voluntad de tu corazón.
~ A.E. Samaan
Your eagerness betrays your patina of somber patience. Your desire unfolds with but a gentle touch.
~ A.E. Samaan
After which, he visited the wife of that fool Wallace and spent midnight till dawn bouncing her from one end of the mattress to the other.
~ A.J. Hartley and David Hewson
an intellectual betrayed his mission if he was not the most constant defender of civilization and freedom of thought
~ Ève Curie
Obviously a fake Kyp. You distract him. I'll shoot him under the table." Han (to Leia)
~ Aaron Allston
That's treason. I like it." Booster
~ Aaron Allston
Xaphen swore an oath never to fail his primarch. Argal Tal did not. He spoke in a voice soft enough to break hearts, "We are heretics, father.
~ Aaron Dembski-Bowden
Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.
~ Aaron Hill
He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
~ Abraham Lincoln
She drew others to her like acolytes only for them to discover she wasn't recruiting.
~ Abraham Verghese
The tide had turned, and the worst possible thing had happened: my heroes had become the "bad guys," and one didn't dare say otherwise.
~ Abraham Verghese
Mary and Jeb were an item from the time they were both in knickers. Even gave her a ring. Then this month my brother ditches her just like that. I'm still mad.
~ Abraham Verghese
The price of deceit is to feel like a cockroach.
~ Abraham Verghese
Secrecy lives in the same rooms as loneliness. His secret and his failing is that after his mother's betrayal he cannot risk love.
~ Abraham Verghese
Kathryn nodded. "She was mean to Chingy." "That goddamn rat shit on her Oriental rug." "It was an ugly rug.
~ Ace Atkins