Quotes About Betrayal

Killing in the name of war was one thing. Killing one's own kin was quite another.

My anger spiked. I should have stabbed the Komizar again. Carved him up like a holiday goose, then brought his head back skewered on a sword and showed it to the crowds as proof that I had no love for the tyrant.

She whirled and saw her cohorts at the end of the walk. Mason held the one with long red braids by the arm.

Just this morning I'd been afraid that I might never meet the young man who loved her so. Now I feared if I ever did meet him, I would cut out his heart with a dull knife and feed it to the gulls. Finally,

I couldn't see it, but I was certain Priya kicked Jalaine beneath the table because Jalaine jumped in her seat, then shot Priya and angry scow.

I gave you a chance. I gave you every chance.

I'm guessing they planned to kill your whole family once you gave them everything they needed.

You could have shot me with an arrow. You could have done a hundred things, but instead you dangled Zane in front of me, knowing what he had done. In an instant, you brought back the horror of a night to a small child. That's what I became.

Deliberate deception is not a mistake. It's calculating and cold. Especially when aimed at the one you profess to love. And if one can't be trusted in love, one can't be trusted in anything

I never want another word about Lia to pass from your lips. And if one word should escape, even by chance, I'll stuff every coin that's in your greedy little palm down your throat right before I cut out your tongue. Do you understand me, Enzo?

A cunning liar who relies on the word of another? I suppose I should appreciate the colossal irony.

But now here I was, out in the middle of nowhere, unable to help anyone, not even myself. I was crushed to the desert floor, my face ground into the sand. Laughed at. Ridiculed. Betrayed by someone I had trusted. More than trusted. I had cared about him.

She would never believe another word I said. Truth that came too late was as useful as a meal to a dead man.

I would have thanked you for being ingenuous, even though, like Hamlet, you had spoke daggers.

This is crazy. We're talking about one of our closest friends.

Ik had beloofd dat ik met niemand anders zou trouwen dan met Filippo. Ik heb niet gezegd welke Filippo. - Beatrice

Michael is easier to understand—he had to believe in Caroline. To betray a friend was despicable—to acknowledge that he had done so for a woman who was utterly unworthy

Aristophanes said that boys throw stones at frogs in jest, but the frogs, they die in earnest. You're going to break my life into splinters, then move on without a second thought. Yes, my lord, you terrify me.

Don't need a knife or gun or poison to break a man's heart.

If you lie to your husband - even about something so banal as how much you drink - each lie is a brick in a wall going up between you, and when he tells you he loves you, it's deflected away.

Sometimes the people we think we know the best are the ones with secrets we can't even fathom.

Whole new level of bullshit, more like," CeeJay said. "What a waste of a penis that guy is.

The youngest son of an officer in Bonaparte's army, Hugo was born in 1802 near the Swiss border, in Besançon. Two years later, his mother, a confirmed royalist, gave up on her marriage, leaving Major Hugo to his mistress and his wars.

Esterhazy's nephew Christian, unexpectedly showed up. Esterhazy had bilked Christian of large sums, and Christian was eager to spill the beans on his reprehensible uncle.