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Quotes About Betrayal

Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.
~ Beau Willimon
You know, if I were an - if I were a Taliban, I'd say, 'What did al-Qaida ever do for me except get me kicked out of Afghanistan?'
~ Robert M. Gates
I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert.
~ Monica Lewinsky
Donald Trump talks about everyone behind their backs.
~ Omarosa Manigault Newman
Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him one doubted Him one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?
~ Richard J. Daley
Maybe we have to betray ourselves in order just to be ourselves. In the end, Truth taps at the window of our souls. What quivers on the lake are only the footprints of Fate. Even our astronomers hear the funeral sounds of dying galaxies before they ever see them. Gusts of time are filling my lungs.
~ Richard Jackson
Maundy Thursday is so called because that night, the night before he was betrayed, Jesus gave the command, the mandatum , that we should love one another. Not necessarily with the love of our desiring, but with a demanding love, even a demeaning love—as in washing the feet of faithless friends who will run away and leave you naked to your enemies.
~ Richard John Neuhaus
You're quite the humanitarian. By the way, thanks a fuck of a lot for leaving me off your who-to-save list. You're on it, Alfredo Garcia. I just didn't want to say it out loud and have you call me Nancy or Tinker Bell. Yeah, I would have done that.
~ Richard Kadrey
When it's true love you know why you're getting stabbed.
~ Richard Kadrey
I never liked Michael, and since he tried to kill me, I like him even less.
~ Richard Kadrey
Stark: So, you think Mason knows I'm back. Vidocq: You just blew up his home. He might suspect something.
~ Richard Kadrey
When I'm right behind him I say, "Boo." He freezes and I put the Glock to the back of his head. "I know you want to die by hoodoo like a real warrior magician. I get it. And that's why it's going to happen like this." I shoot him and let him fall on the floor with the dead guards. Fuck him. Fuck magic. Fuck the faction. And double fuck whoever shot me in the chest.
~ Richard Kadrey
Ray looks over to see what Carlos is talking about. He has good control of his face. He's done this before. Ray never looks shocked, but the momentary spike in his heartbeat and his pupils dilating tell me all I need to know.
~ Richard Kadrey
Yes!" he yells like he just cured cancer. He even smiles when he looks at me. "Remember my streaming service?" "You mean your betrayal of all movie rental shops ever? I remember.
~ Richard Kadrey
Whatever happened to Michael?" "Oh, I killed him." "Thank you. What a complete dick." "He really was, wasn't he?" "The worst.
~ Richard Kadrey
The other bad part about being tossed out of a second story by one dead prick is that other dead pricks tend to notice.
~ Richard Kadrey
I only cut off my enemies' heads. I break my friends' hearts.
~ Richard Kadrey
If I learned anything Downtown, it's this: the only real difference between an enemy and a friend is the day of the week.
~ Richard Kadrey
Enemies will kill you with a knife in the back. Friends will kill you with kindness. Either way you're dead.
~ Richard Kadrey
What . . . what did you do to Marv?' 'He's all right.' Her eyes lowered to Roy's knife hand. He glanced down. His hand was shiny red. 'So I lied,' he said. 'God in heaven! O merciful God!
~ Richard Laymon
You know who Anne Frank is?' I asked. 'Of course,' he said, as if I had offended his intelligence and Dutch pride. 'When they came to get her, they went right to her hiding place.' 'I know.' 'And that means someone betrayed her.' 'But who did it?' he said. 'You.
~ Richard Lourie
so then we had to find Jews to turn in so my father wouldn't die.
~ Richard Lourie
I brought myself down. I gave them a sword, and they stuck it in. And they twisted it with relish. And, I guess, if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.
~ Richard M. Nixon
It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a book only to discover that you have missed several key chapters. THE LETTER Chapter 9 page 104
~ Richard Paul Evans