Betrayal Quotes

Betrayal Quote of the day

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal.

Just because they say they're praying for you in your face, doesn't mean they aren't laughing at your struggle behind your back.

There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust.

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

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

He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.

I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

My heart is the throne of the Beloved, the Beloved the heart's destiny: Whoever breaks another's heart will find no homecoming in this world or any other.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal.

Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Trust is earned, respect is given, and loyalty is demonstrated. Betrayal of any one of those is to lose all three.

Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you.

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

Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.

When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.

May God have mercy on my soul for the deaths on my name and for the treachery I committed. Betrayal of God and country, what a sad and horrible thing it is.

It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

Who would have thought that [director] Cameron Crowe had a movie as bad as Vanilla Sky in him? It's a punishing picture, a betrayal of everything that Crowe has proved he knows how to do right.

Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.

As a rule, panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works.

If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?

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

Our 'normal' 'adjusted' state is too often the abdication of ecstasy, the betrayal of our true potentialities.

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

Each betrayal begins with trust.

The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.

The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.

Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion.

It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

The last thing I want to be is sanctimonious, but the thing that frustrates me is the deceit and betrayal, how there's one rule for males and another for females.

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

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