Betrayal Quotes

O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies.

Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!)

Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

If someone betrays you once, it is his fault. If he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, they will never cease to be amused. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

These Negroes who go for integration and intermarriage are linking up with the very people who lynched their fathers, raped their mothers, and put their kid sisters in the kitchen to scrub floors.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal.

When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.

Flesh and blood,You, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,Expell'd remorse and nature, who, with Sebastian-Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong-Would here have kill'd your king, I do forgive thee,Unnatural though thou art.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

What are friends? Friends are people you think are your friends but they really your enemies, with secret identities.

And be these juggling friends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope.

We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe

It is often our best friends who throw us down.

I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.

Hell hath no fury like a woman cheated out of a million dollars.

October is the cruelest month of any election year, but by then, the pain is so great that even the strong are like jelly and time has lost all meaning for anybody still involved in a political campaign. By that time, even candidates running unopposed have abandoned all hope of victory and live only for the day when they will finally be free to seek vengeance on all those treacherous bastards who once passed themselves off as loyal friends and allies and swore they were only in it because they all shared the same hopes and dreams.

They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale.

Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.

I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

For as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as tie heresies that men do leave Are hated most of those they did deceive, So thou, my surfeit and my heresy, Of all be hated, but the most of me!

What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth better than when the ties that bound me to him were broken. In the keen distress of the discovery of his unworthiness, I thought more of all that was brilliant in him, I softened more towards all that was good in him, I did more justice to the qualities that might have made him a man of a noble nature and a great name, than ever I had done in the height of my devotion to him.

Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?

I took a chance, I took a shot And you may think I’m bullet-proof, but I’m not. You took a swing, I took it hard. And down here from the ground I see who you are

It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.

Two may keep counsel putting one away!

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so. And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care is yourself.

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned.

I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

You also, O son Brutus.[Lat., Et tu, Brute fili.]

Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.

The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!

How could you do me like that I took ya family in put some cash in ya pocket made you a man again

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

For trust not him that hath once broken faith

There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.

Such an actThat blurs the grace and blush of modesty;Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the roseFrom the fair forehead of an innocent love,And sets a blister there; makes marriage vowsAs false as dicers' oaths.

Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh-ho sing, heigh-ho unto the green holly Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Then heigh-ho the holly This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend rememberd not.

Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones; Who, though they cannot answer my distress, Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes, For that they will not intercept my tale: When I do weep, they humbly at my feet Receive my tears and seem to weep with me; And, were they but attired in grave weeds, Rome could afford no tribune like to these.

When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.

Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.

As they spoke, the only thing I could think about was that scene from Julius Caesar where Brutus stabs him in the back. Et tu, Eric?

He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.

I stole her heart away and put ice in its place.

Passionate attachment to another nation produces a variety of evils... the illusion of common interests where no real common interests exist; adopting the enmities of the other; and participation in the quarrels and wars of the other without any justification. Still another evil is that such a passionate attachment gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens the facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country.