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Quotes About Betrayal

You steal from me and you will have made an enemy for eternity." "Oh, goodie. I hear my enemies have a club now, even have weekly meetings. Maybe you can join and learn the secret handshake." The Crone was not amused and still was waving her flaming arm. "That's not the handshake, but it's surprisingly close. The middle finger needs to be extended more.
~ Unknown
Men. Can't live with them, can't turn them into rats when they cheat on you. Well, actually I can. Not that I would. At least not again. Probably," Gani said. "So,
~ Unknown
Home? Home is where they don't tie you to a rock and drip acid on you. And sometimes it isn't." -Loki, Norse god of Mischief
~ Unknown
Friendship makes thieves of us all
~ Patti Smith
You mean you kidnap them, brainwash them with a dangerous drug that kills some and leaves others brain-damaged, then send the ones who are lucky enough to survive back to betray their friends so you can make a few more billion dollars? You're one sick weirdo.
~ Unknown
We don't want to know when we will die or when the people we love will betray us....we're hungry to know the dead before they were dead, to acquaint ourselves with the dead as living beings.
~ Unknown
Yes, me, I prefer the hourglass so you can smash it when I tell you of eternity's lie —Paul Celan, "[Blinded by giant leaps]," Romanian Poems (Green Integer, 2003)
~ Paul Celan
There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood.
~ Unknown
All wars leave a legacy of bitterness and hatred, but internecine conflicts create the deepest scars. There is something different about such intrafamilial conflicts. People who once were part of one national family divide, define each other as the hateful enemy, and aim for the jugular. On both sides of an internecine conflict there is a feeling of betrayal, a sense that those who were brothers or sisters have been traitorous to their commitments or to the nation [1].
~ Unknown
Spiritual adultery occurs when I give the love that belongs to God alone to something or someone else.
~ Paul David Tripp
No one rose to his defense. He not only suffered; he suffered alone. Even his Father turned his back on him in his deepest moment of agony.
~ Paul David Tripp
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
~ Paul de Man
Sir John, once he
~ Unknown
Suddenly de Montfort went rigid and the ciborium slipped from his hand, dashing the white hosts like snowflakes onto the altar steps. The man's hand went out, pointing at the king, his usually skull-like face now almost cadaverous, the skin drawn tight, the eyes bulging. Corbett rose, his hand searching for the knife beneath his cloak. De Montfort's mouth opened and shut like a landed carp, then with a loud cry he fell headlong down the steps, his
~ Unknown
why people who have been unfaithful to their partners are prone to trivializing their affairs.
~ Unknown
A broken promise is not a lie.
~ Paul Ekman
Most often lies fail because some sign of an emotion being concealed leaks. The stronger the emotions involved in the lie, and the greater the number of different emotions, the more likely it is that the lie will be betrayed by some form of behavioral leakage.
~ Paul Ekman
You should never tell your best friend anything you wouldn´t be prepared to tell your worst enemy.
~ Paul Hoffman
Arbell)The ungrateful gorgeous bitch.
~ Paul Hoffman
Again she did not seem to hear, still looking into Cale's eyes. Then slowly, hopelessly, she dropped her gaze. "I understand," she said. It was that, of course, that pierced him as if she had stabbed him through the heart. To him it was the sound of lost faith and it was unendurable. He felt he'd become a kind of god in her eyes, and it was simply impossible to give up her adoration.
~ Paul Hoffman
It was December 30, 1933, and the author of the Great Purge wined and dined Bullitt. At the end of a lovely evening together, FDR's new ambassador bade Stalin goodnight with a tender kiss on the cheek; the doting despot dutifully reciprocated.24
~ Paul Kengor
If you can't keep a promise to a loved one, you probably aren't going to keep the loved one, either.
~ Paul Levine
The gunshot hit Nicolai Gorev squarely between the eyes. His head snapped back, then whipped forward, and he toppled face-first onto his desk.
~ Paul Levine
On adultery: "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?
~ Paul Newman