Quotes About Betrayal

Every policeman knows the truth: there is no limit to the things that people will do to other people. And every torturer knows the way to make a man betray himself. It doesn't matter how tough he is, how many torments he can endure on his own body, he can't endure even the whisper of evil being done to his darling.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

You trample on hearts as if they're grapes and you're making wine.

There are no such things as friends. Just acquaintances who haven't let you down yet.

My dad was Callum McGregor. Hanged for political terrorism. Hanged for being a rapist and a murderer. Hanged for being a son of a bitch.

Samson had his Delilah, Adam his Eve, and the Jazter had you. Already, I can see my epitaph. "Here lies Jaz, lover of his fellow men, done in royally by one of them.

The Mahabharata is our story, but in this modern version - our Shakuni has an English avatar.

Saps que ets un covard, però la covardia t'és còmoda, i has arribat a l'edat de la comoditat, quan trair és tan fàcil, quan l'egoisme comença a burxar i vols les coses fàcils i busques raons que ho justifiquin. Per qüestions de matís defuges la responsabilitat, la part de responsabilitat que et toca...

Jo ja havia comprès que sempre cal actuar a despit dels qui no s'ho mereixen, que cal sacrificar-se pels altres, àduch pels qui us trairan; que allò que compta és la propia noblesa, no la traïció dels altres.

Quando un rivoluzionario non è un poeta finisce per essere un dittatore o un burocrate, un traditore dei propri sogni...

Sharing your life with someone for whom your feelings are shaky at best—how can that be anything but a lie, a betrayal? Do you have even the faintest notion of what life looks like when the person you're with treats you like a stranger?

With both Cynewulf and Cyneheard dead, and many of their men with them,

Hopeful of remaining hidden, they were soon betrayed and sentenced to die on Cædwalla's orders.

assaulted and robbed, and many of his companions were killed.

William Shakespeare: I have a wife, yes, and I cannot marry the daughter of Sir Robert De Lesseps. You needed no wife come from Stratford to tell you that, and yet, you let me come to your bed. Viola De Lesseps: Calf-love. I loved the writer and gave up the prize for a sonnet.

Viola De Lesseps: You have never spoken so well of him before. William Shakespeare: He was not dead before.

Mieux vaut d'être haï par un doux qu'aimé par un cruel.

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

A woman whom we love seldom satisfies all our needs, and we deceive her with a woman we do not love.

For in order to really suffer at the hands of a woman one must have believed in her completely.

I should have been struck down by the despair a young lover feels who has sworn lifelong fidelity, when a friend speaks to him of the other mistresses he will have in time to come.

so great can the gulf be between a lying woman's invention and the idea which her lover, relying on her lies, has formed of the truth.

Thus while he spake, each passion dimm'd his face   Thrice chang'd with pale, ire, envie and despair,   Which marrd his borrow'd visage, and betraid   Him counterfet, if any eye beheld.

And now, at last, the Supreme Court has made it perfectly clear that the Manitoba Métis had been cheated out of their land by the Government of Canada. That is, by you and me. That the Government of Canada betrayed the Honour of the Crown. And we are the Crown. You and I.