Quotes About Betrayal

His broken heart was unfeeling, like shattered glass in an acid bath.

Wiggy & I were drug buddies. There is no tighter compact for friendship. There is no greater potential for deceit.

North and South Vietnam were meant to be reunified in national elections two years later, but Saigon—with Washington's support—reneged.

After China's fall to the Communists in 1949, which McCarthy and his allies deemed a stab in the back by a treasonous State Department, the Far Eastern Affairs division had been gutted, its most gifted analysts farmed out to other bureaus or hounded out of government altogether.

find out where Bob and the others hid the strongbox?" Shepherd sighed again and wagged his head sadly. '"Fraid not, Boss. Sorry about that. Ain't likely any

Goriot was "a grease spot in his daughters' drawing rooms." Once they squeezed the money out of him he's discarded "like a lemon peel" in the gutter. The moral drawn by the Duchesse: "Society is a mudhole. Let's try to remain up on the heights.

Journalism, it turns out, is just so much hot air, hot type rather, that has an extraordinary importance at the moment but leaves nothing behind. It is the very opposite of the true poetic word that endures—what Lucien originally aspired to but betrayed

Al igual que la traducción, la transcripción es una forma de traición.

Availing himself of the innate Apache love of fighting, he offered full army pay to warriors willing to turn against their own people (he had plenty of takers).

When your heart's been cut out, how's it going to feel knowing that you're the one who wielded the knife ?

While I was now fairly demoralized, as well as aflame with the prospect of an hour in his daughter's arms, the thought of using his car to debauch his bourgeois paradise was a perfidy at which I drew the line.

It's not the pain that hurts,' she said, 'it's finding out that one of your idols is a real asshole.

Now, let me tell you what's going to happen," Castillito said, righting her chair. "If I don't walk out of here within another two hours, details of your Eliter heritage will be anonymously delivered to Gorlan and your precious Stonal.

Our perception of the Silfen as gentle and kind is our own stupid, convenient illusion. We wanted to believe in elves. And how many human bodies lie out there under the snow because of that?

Malicious gossip is the death of the soul.

My father told me by the time you die you'll be lucky if you have six people you called your friends to carry your coffin.I now realize and believe the truth is I thought if I had a dollar for every friend I in my life I'd be rich. The sad truth is if I had a penny for every true friend I have I wouldn't have a nickel.

Norway's collaborationist leader Vidkun Quisling was shot by a firing squad;

Never join a conspiracy that you could possibly betray, because if you could, someone else will.

I met another like him, nearly two years later, in San Sebastian, who informed me that he was so disgusted with the British for the way they had let down his Czar that he had ceased altogether to drink whiskey.

Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.

Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.”

“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.

Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.”