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Quotes About Betrayal

Oh, this time I was doing the gossiping. You should really dismiss me for disloyalty, not to mention the disrespect I'm showing right now by talking to you like this.
~ Jayne Bauling
you gave up any right to comment on the subject when you threw my ring back in my face, didn't you?" She (Elly) stiffened."I didn't throw it back. I just sort of set in down on your desk." He (Cooper)shrugged."We each have our own version of events, Want some fries?
~ Jayne Castle
It was so typical of the little sneak. And after all she'd done for him.
~ Jayne Castle
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Anyone who has not experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
~ Jean Genet
You must now go home, where everything -- you can be quite sure -- will be falser than here....You must go now. You'll leave by the right, through the alley....
~ Jean Genet
Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all
~ Jean Genet
Je hasarde une explication : écrire c'est le dernier recours quand on a trahi.
~ Jean Genet
May I venture an explanation: writing is the ultimate recourse for those who have betrayed
~ Jean Genet
Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing of ecstasy at all.
~ Jean Genet
Betrayal is beautiful.
~ Jean Genet
My heart to my mother, my cock to the whores, my head to the hangman.
~ Jean Genet
To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.
~ Jean Genet
The pain between them at this moment is more intimate than anything that has come before. It is also, incidentally, more intimate than anything she has shared with her fiancé. It is devastating.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
What happened in Nyamata, in the churches, in the marshes and on the hills, were the abnormal actions of perfectly normal people. Here's why I say that. The principal and the inspector of schools in my district joined in the killings with nail-studded clubs. Two teachers, colleagues with whom I used to share beers and student evaluations, pitched in to help, so to speak. A priest, the mayor, the assistant chief of police, a doctor - they all killed with their own hands.
~ Jean Hatzfeld
I was aghast by the betrayal those thoughts represented, by the callous creature they proved me to be.
~ Jean Hegland
I've made two mistakes, gentlemen. I've confided in a woman and I've slept in a bed.
~ Jean Lartéguy
I cherished you inconstant; what would I have done, faithful? Now, even now, when your cruel mouth so calmly speaks my death sentence, I wonder, cold wretch, I wonder still, if I do not love you.
~ Jean Racine
Pour qui sont ces serpents qui sifflent sur vos têtes ?
~ Jean Racine
How little do the lips and heart agree! How joyfully do people break their word! We both are strangers in a foreign land.
~ Jean Racine
Todellinen vihollinen löytyy poikkeuksetta linjojen takaa, omasta selustasta, ei koskaan edestä eikä myöskään sisältä. Jokainen ammattisotilas tietää tämän, ja kaikissa armeijoissa kaikkina aikoina on esiintynyt kiusausta jättää muodollinen vihollinen sikseen ja kääntyä ympäri selvittämään tilit todellisen vihollisen kanssa kerta kaikkiaan!
~ Jean Raspail
And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?
~ Jean Rhys
She also had this friend named The Asp, who whenever she was really in a tight spot would just show up and cut everybody's head off.
~ Jean Shepherd
I read Wolfe's new book _ The Story of a Novel_ and as usual he stole the whole damn thing from me. I am going to write and say will you please stop writing books you bastard.
~ Jean Stafford