Betrayal Quotes

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

You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.

All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.

He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant.

Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

Betrayal... is my favorite subject.

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.

I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

He's an intimate betrayer. That's what's so troubling. Judas turned in his own teacher.

You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.

For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.

The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and vicious.

No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

Even loss and betrayal can bring us awakening.

We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Anyone who's never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn't know what pleasure is.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first to repent and regret.

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.

She who resists as though she would not win, By her own treason falls an easy prey.

Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves.

You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

There were a thousand secrets in her eyes, a thousand wounds. A lifetime of distrust and betrayal. Isolation. How did one overcome such things?

With some people there is such a thing as the habit of betrayal.

Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.

Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!

Why is it that loving something provides such little protection from betrayal?

We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.

Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.

You can never betray the people who are dead.

No matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. Ther's no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.

Within the pages of The Betrayal of America I prove that these justices were absolutely up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to.

When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.

It's absolutely fatal to your writing to think about how your work will be received. It's a betrayal of whatever talent you have.

I've always been drawn to stories and characters facing some sort of struggle against forces beyond our control, be it love, loss, betrayal.

One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.