Betrayal Quotes

I want to see her naked, Mengele said pointing to Marlene. She cried and shock. My mother flung her body in front of Marlene's and said, You can't have her. I love her, my daughter. My father said, Take the younger one. She's smarter, as he pushed me over forward.Marlene cried because father said I was smarter even though he was just trying to manipulate Mengele. The doctor's chest grew large.

~ Wendy Hoffman

...for to be sunk, though but for an hour in your esteem is a humiliation to which I know not how to submit. -Susan

~ Jane Austen

My heart had stopped as my world spun around me. I felt all the walls that had begun to crack and crumble slam right back into place as I looked into the eyes of the monster I knew was there all along.

~ Alicia Deters

He had found that jealousy – or perhaps the fear of betrayal – was no respecter of age. Indeed, if anything, he thought getting older simply made it worse; he felt more vulnerable now.

~ Kathy Shuker

Time shall unfold what pleated cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

~ William Shakespeare

A man shouldn't bite the hand that feeds him, even if another holds out a golden spoon to him as reward after his betrayal.

~ A.j. Darkholme

When you are fed with the spoon of betrayal, you can choose to spit it out and live or swallow it and die

~ Ikechukwu Izuakor

As a general rule. it's a comfort issue, literally and metaphorically. And intimacy issue. It's a big step, putting on foreign underwear. Like betrayal, or emigration.

~ Lee Child

Life is, you know, but an idea. You can fill it up with anything really and deceive yourself into believing that is what you need. You can be happy, sad, benevolent, crafty, unpleasant. That man filled it up with nastiness and it destroyed him in the end. I wonder what could have made him that way. Cruelty on the part of others or cruelty in his heart? - Lady Cavendish

~ Noorilhuda

That’s why it’s difficult to write about your own life. Any distortion feels like a betrayal.

~ Paul Park

1225International big business has made revolutions before now to safeguard its interests. At one time it made them … in the name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Now, with Socialism to fight, it makes them in the name of Law and Order and Sound Finance. Assassination? If an assassination is going to be good for business, then there will be an assassination.

~ Eric Ambler

She can’t explain or quite understand what it is that is special about dancing with Harry. When he opens his arms to her, he is so sure, the way he holds her, not too hard, not too soft. Like coming home. Where she belongs. The way he moves her. They are a part of the music. Their bodies fit together, move like one person. Perfect. The way a man and a woman must feel, she thinks, when they are in love. He makes her feel beautiful, too, like when he assures her that someday she will be good enough to be a professional dancer. Harry must know, because he is the best dancer, the best teacher, a girl could have, patient and gentle. She is lucky that he believes in her. That is how she feels outside his door.

~ Alice Simpson

I don't want to fall in love with you,' she said, pushing away. 'why not?''because you'll just end up using it against me.

~ Francine Rivers

Every time I think of Tim Leary I get angry. He was a liar and a quack and a worse human being than Richard Nixon. For the last twenty-six years of his life he worked as an informant for the FBI and turned his friends into the police and betrayed the peace symbol he hid behind.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

There is nothing worse than fear. Fear is worse than cancer, fear is worse than torture, fear is worse than betrayal and fear is even worse than death.

~ Bryant Mcgill

a lot of happiness lead a person to disappointments.

~ Aribazafar

Strike said Huh again, thinking about betrayal, about how everything and everybody were just so much smoke.

~ Richard Price

If anything should take place behind closed doors, it was cruelty and betrayal.

~ Edward St. Aubyn

Who can protect themselves from betrayal? The day your brother wakes up and plans to do you dirty, there's no defense against that.

~ Ice-T

But to betray her with battalion... That is against decency, against Nature...And for him, Christopher tietjens, to come down to the level of the men you met here!

~ Ford Madox Ford

You can like people and still betray them, if it was for a cause you believed in passionately enough. You have to betray other people rather than betray yourself--if that's what it comes to.

~ Anne Perry

So the fox killed his brother, the wolf. (Mother Scaer)

~ Joe Abercrombie

I can’t control your behavior; nor do I want that burden… but I will not apologize for refusing to be disrespected, to be lied to, or to be mistreated. I have standards; step up or step out.

~ Steve Maraboli

Don't cry for someone who would love smiling when your tears are flowing.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

When a man loves a woman, as our old troubadours used to say, even if he has heard or seen something that puts his beloved in a bad light, he should believe neither his ears nor his eyes, he should listen to his heart alone.

~ Marquis De Sade

There is not a more powerful weapon upon this earth capable of inflicting more damage, pain and suffering than a betrayal of the heart.

~ Mark Boyer

A warning to you both - choose to follow me or oppose me and I will kill you.-Connor Kenway

~ Oliver Bowden

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

~ Michael Moorcock

You can't stay here any more. My fears have been irrational and they've forced me to make unwise decisions and accept the unacceptable.

~ Dorothy Koomson

That's the catch about betrayal, of course: that it feels good, that there's something immensely pleasurable about moving from a complicated relationship which involves minor atrocities on both sides to a nice, neat, simple one where one person has done something so horrible and unforgivable that the other person is immediately absolved of all the low-grade sins of sloth, envy, gluttony, avarice and I forget the other three.

~ Nora Ephron

When you finally betray me, I hope you care enough to try to kill my yourself.

~ Drew Karpyshyn

One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or, worse still, when one betrays them does one realize their power.

~ Elizabeth Bowen

There is no substantive difference between being stabbed to death in the living beating heart with a physical knife and feeling the plunging stabbing pain of betrayal.

~ Keith Aaron Gilbert

Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side. Betrayal is a friend I have known a long time, a two-faced goddess looking forward and back with a clear, earnest suspicion of good fortune.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

Every day, streets papered with more and more for .Reward, reward, reward.Reward for information.If you see something, say something.A paper town, a paper world: paper rustling in the airm whispering to me, hissing out a message of posion and jealousy.If you know something, do something.I'm sorry, Lena.

~ Lauren Oliver

And there it was, on a shabby bed in a tawdry, ill-lighted bedroom, surrounded by a crowd of ignorant and excited people, broken and wounded, betrayed and unpitied, that Griffin, the first of all men to make himself invisible, Griffin, the most gifted physicist the world has ever seen, ended in infinite disaster his strange and terrible career.

~ H.g. Wells

Gemma, I’m not going to hurt you.” His voice is as smooth as silk as he winds around the bed, his radiant, green eyes fixed on me. “I promise I won’t hurt you. Everything’s okay.”I laugh sharply as I put weight on my weak legs. “That’s the biggest lie I’ve ever heard come out of your mouth, which says a lot since you’re the biggest liar I’ve ever met.

~ Jessica Sorensen

Where was my guardian angel when I needed him most? If only I knew.

~ A. Esquivel

We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal.

~ Tennessee Williams

I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine.

~ Charles Bukowski