Betrayal Quotes

From a leader's perspective, the most serious betrayal has to do with thwarting human potential, with quenching the spirit, with failing to deal equitably with each other as human beings.

I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.

Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.

Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.

Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver....The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.

And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume.

As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness.

I believe that drudgery and clock-watching are a terrible betrayal of that universal, inborn entrepreneurial spirit.

The betrayal of people's good will, good trust that things are being done for the best and they actually ARE being done for the best.

If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation.

When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.

I saw a lot of 47 Ronin on the TV, in the films, and I've done Chushingura Gaiden Yotsuya Kaidan [Crest of Betrayal, 1994] directed by Kinji Fukasaku.

For me, I always wonder what's worse: an emotional betrayal or a physical betrayal? That's a really tough call.

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed.

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!

Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy.

Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal.

For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.

Trust is not established in the absence of betrayal, but in those whose betrayal is least.

Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?

There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.

I would rather my enemy's sword pierce my heart then my friend's dagger stab me in the back." Faustus - Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.

Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.

Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

People think it's a betrayal of authenticity if you do something different.

For only when faithfulness turns to betrayal And betrayal into trust Can any human being become part of the truth.

In a restless heart the seed of betrayal lay.

We can depend on nobody in this world, and sometimes we even betray ourselves.

I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.

Heartbreak has an archetypal core, all heartbroken individuals suffer from the same kind of torture.

Let yourself feel good again, laugh with friends, have fun. Living your life to the full is not betrayal of a memory but fulfillment of a promise to someone who would want only the best for you.

The most dangerous follower is the one whose defection would destroy the whole party: hence, the best follower.

The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil

My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even loyalty- because without the opposite, the concept had no meaning.

Betrayal is beautiful.

Bad faith makes the most of every ambiguity.

It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.

there are times when you have to speak because silence is betrayal.

You can accept a falling out that changes your plans, but it's hard to accept a betrayal that changes your memories.

Her idea of who's worth what ain't mine.