Quotes About Betrayal

David [Rizzio], with the consent of the king, shall have his throat cut within these ten days.

Mary was betrayed by her own family, who failed to give her the benefit of the doubt.

Even the Catholics deserted Mary in her hour of need.

Two letters would be about Darnley's murder

Casket Letters I

By acquiescing in the treaty of Edinburgh, her uncles had betrayed her.

AT EIGHT O'CLOCK on the fatal Saturday evening, Darnley led Lord Ruthven and an accomplice through his private apartments

The struggle is lost from the beginning, long before the victorious party or army conquers state power and 'betrays' its promises. It is lost once power itself seeps into the struggle, once the logic of power becomes the logic of the revolutionary process, once the negative of refusal is converted into the positive of power-building.

There's nothing so confusing as finding out that you don't know someone you thought you knew.

When the lies of omission unravel, so does the story.

William was quite the hand at Couperin's Messe pour les couvents, too, and Alice had been right about the Christmas section from Handel's Messiah. As for the seduced parishioner, the military man's young wife, Jack's mother told him little—only enough that the boy assumed his father hadn't been asked to leave Kastelskirken for flubbing a refrain.

The good gringo asked Lupe if she forgave him for sleeping with her mother. "Yes," Lupe said, "but we can't ever get married.

Frotters!" Herr Faber shouted. "Thieving frotters everywhere I turn!

Jack's mother was particularly miserable when she discovered that she wasn't the only choirgirl who'd fallen in love with Jack's father, but she was the only one who was pregnant.

the Old Girls quickly heard of Alice and her condition. (Jack, of course, was the condition.)

The Clone Wars were yet another thing to be upset about. Everything about that conflict had been a lie. The Separatists had been this big enemy, and yet when the Empire was declared they'd melted away as if at the push of a button. The big corporations had staged the whole thing, Skelly was sure. Wars sold more ships, more weapons, and more medical devices. And in the Clone Wars, even the soldiers on both sides were manufactured goods.

No wonder you've turned on me so savagely. I suspect that you are using me as a scapegoat for your own feelings of guilt.

Miss O'Hara certainly had to cast her pearls before a dismal lot of swine, who looked like the type of vague, drawn old men who molested children at matinees.

Yes, he had practically saved my life. He had also practically lost it for me.

raped her while he was living with them.

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

You know you are capitalism's ideal puppet (and that education betrayed you) when winning the lottery is your only chance to realizing financial freedom.

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifting from where you've carefully placed them, it shakes your faith, right where you stand.