Betrayal Quotes

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.

~ Anna Funder

Don't give it to them all at once, make them work for it. Confuse them with detail, leave things out, go back on your tracks. Be testy, be cussed, be difficult. Drink like a fish; don't give way on the ideology, they won't trust that. They want to deal with a man they've bought; they want the clash of opposites, Alec, not some half-cock convert.

~ John Le Carré

To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Never trust a promise

~ Jill Hucklesby

I lean down so that my face is right in front of hers and whisper, ‘He doesn’t love you. I love you.

~ Kaui Hart Hemmings

...love is always infidelity, isn’t it? Always a betrayal of someone or something. Even with your first girl, when you’re seventeen and living at home, you’re still cheating. Cheating on your parents. Pretending to be a child with them and a man with her. Having to hide the smile on your face and the scent of her on your body. And all that hiding making it so much more precious, so much more exciting. And you’re cheating on your friends too. Pretending you’re still one of the gang, when all you are is her lover and you could care less about any of them. And it doesn’t matter how old you are, or how free you are, you still cheat. A single man with a job in love with a single girl, he’s still unfaithful. He’s cheating every time he drives to work and pretends to go through the old routine, while in his mind he’s really with her, rushing to her, flowing all over her. Just walking down the street, pretending to be a regular human being, he’s betraying all the other human beings around him. Because he’s nothing like them. He’s not walking next to them at all. He’s not even there. He’s with her.

~ Phoef Sutton

For when success a lover's toil attends,Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends

~ Alexander Pope

It was not that donors had no loyalty to each other, but they were not ashamed to betray a fellow donor. In its wisdom the Alliance promulgated the moral rules—the main one being one’s duty to the Alliance. The Alliance was sacred—all else secondary. But not all donors—or citizens—bought into that. Many knew in their hearts there was more to life.

~ Cate Campbell Beatty

After sealing the door, Alqash went to the river to cleanse the blood from his hands and the dagger, and also to wash his hands of the faith that he had forfeited in exchange for short-lived riches.

~ Musharraf Ali Farooqi

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.

~ Stephenie Meyer

She wasn't always a pillar of ice. Her warmth and good deeds were repaid with deceit and betrayal until little by little a chill took over.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

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

~ Jeanette Winterson

Dreams so often become nightmares. Family can so easily become foes. And people are always more stupid than you give them credit for.

~ Mike A. Lancaster

...you betrayed me, but after all those years I discover, my tears have wiped the slate clean...

~ John Geddes

It's like that quote: 'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.' The choice between a duty or a principle, you know?

~ Zadie Smith

It's a bitter truth but we humans are the only creature in this universe who not only fed up with things but also by other human beings.

~ M.h. Rakib

For the senior officers in Iraq, at least in 2005-2006, the responsibility was to the men at the top, the media, the message, the public back home - anything and everything, it seemed, but the soldiers under their command. And that's the ultimate betrayal of Iraq, the one that disillusioned me in Baghdad and Nineveh and keeps me outraged today.

~ Luis Carlos Montalván

To love love and not its meaning, hardens the heart in monstrous ways... (The Rape Of The Swan)Footnote : A form of self-edification, infatuation, lust and the epitome of hedonism.

~ Archibald Macleish

A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied 10 minutes later Gen. George Patton

~ Walter Danley

Betrayal. It's one of the worst feelings.

~ Jay Asher

But I was going to learn the hardest lesson in life: that those whoare closest to you, always betray you first.

~ Susan Speranza

There's nothing easier to control than a person who trusts you. They place their hope in your hands. They place their respect in your hands. What is truly fearsome about such delusional admiration, is the betrayal that you don't see, hidden within the white void of truth.

~ Lionel Suggs

A traitor may betray himself and do good he does not intend.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

But he didn't need to seek visual confirmation of what he'd just heard to know she had. And the truth was, he couldn't blame her. He'd not have let her die, either. He'd have moved mountains. He'd have battled God or Devil for his wife's life. She'd betrayed him. He smiled faintly.

~ Karen Marie Moning

He was as yet not sufficiently experienced in ruffianism to know that one villain always sacrifices another to advance his own project, he was credulous enough to believe in the old adage of 'honor amongst thieves.

~ Émile Gaboriau

Men's loyalty to their women dies hard - and almost always too late. (I'm Dangerous Tonight)

~ Cornell Woolrich

Love's night and a lampJudged our vows:That she would love me everAnd I should never leave her.Love's night and you, lamp,Witnessed the pact.Today the vow runs:Oaths such as these, waterwords.Tonight, lamp,Witness her lying- In other arms.

~ Meleager

Co-opted convictions will always betray you.

~ Charles M. Blow