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

    Betrayal   Lying   Secret  
    Amy Tan (2001). “The Bonesetter's Daughter”, p.105, Penguin
  • When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

    Betrayal   Doe   Flattery  
    "Sentences". Collection by Publilius Syrus. Maxim 277,
  • Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.

  • Because I have nothing else to live for. You told me of your brother’s betrayal. Imagine your own father calling out his hounds to kill your infant daughter and husband. Imagine what it was like to watch them die and then be taken and punished for something you didn’t do. To be stripped of your dignity and emotions because your father was embarrassed by a stupid, insignificant dream he’d had and he blamed everyone who walks in the dreams for it. You feel your pain, Aiden. I feel mine. (Leta)

  • I understand pain. I've lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.

    Pain   Betrayal   Knowing  
  • Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

    Betrayal   Men   Secret  
    Sir Henry Taylor (1836). “The Statesman”, p.131
  • Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first.

    "My Steve". Book by Terri Irwin, 2012.
  • To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself. Caleb's betrayal is something we both carry, and since he did it, all I've wanted is for him to take its weight away from me. I am not sure that I'm capable of shouldering it all myself - not sure that I am strong enough, or good enough.

    Strong   Pain   Betrayal  
  • Betrayal betrays the betrayer.

  • To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while their masters were away fighting in a cause opposed to their emancipation, brought their blankets and slept outside their mistresses' doors, thus keeping night-watch over otherwise unprotected women and children -- a faithful guardianship of which the annals of those troublous times record no instance of betrayal.

  • There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.

    Fleur Adcock (2000). “Poems 1960-2000”, Bloodaxe Books Limited
  • For some people, a one-night stand doesn't make any difference in a seven-year love affair. I don't believe the degree of betrayal is always commensurate with the egregiousness of the behavior. They are two separate things.

    Source: wbur.org
  • An unforgettable tale of love, lust, faith, betrayal, and redemption. A powerful, mesmerizing suspense novel-a tour de force!

  • Betrayal lived in a separate realm than sex, a realm that was far more innocent, and far more erotic.

    Sex   Betrayal   Erotic  
    Galt Niederhoffer (2008). “The Romantics”, p.228, Macmillan
  • We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

    Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1491, Delphi Classics
  • Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves.

    Terry Goodkind (2015). “Confessor”, p.476, Head of Zeus
  • One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.

    Steven Dietz (1996). “Dracula”, p.59, Dramatists Play Service Inc
  • I found Mr. Carter's actions toward the Republic of China so incredible that they defy description by socially acceptable expletives. If December 7, 1941 was a "day of infamy" then December 15, 1978 ranks right up there in international betrayal...The pathetic thing about this whole mess, however, is that it is typical of this administration's conduct of foreign affairs, which could be kindly described as being riddled by ineptitude and hypocrisy.

  • When one does another person an injustice, in some mysterious way it does one good to discover (or to persuade oneself) that the injured party has also behaved badly or unfairly in some little matter or other; it is always a relief to the conscience if one can apportion some measure of guilt to the person one has betrayed.

    Betrayal   Party   Guilt  
    "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.
  • There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.

  • It’s never the enemy without who brings you down. It’s always the enemy within.” – Nick “Guard your back, Nick. It’s the one you don’t see coming. The one you trust whose betrayal is most lethal. They know your weakness and they know how to hit the lowest. It’s when your back is turned and your guard is down that they move in for the kill.” – Kyrian

    Betrayal   Moving   Enemy  
  • Betrayal would be a different sort of sick.

  • When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the "big canoe" of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the vipers whose sting is destined to poison all their joys; and the instinctive feeling of love within their breasts is soon converted into the bitterest hate.

    Beach   Betrayal   Hate  
    Herman Melville (2017). “The Complete Works of Herman Melville: Adventure Classics, Sea Tales, Philosophical Works, Short Stories, Poetry & Essays: Moby-Dick, Typee, Omoo, Redburn, White-Jacket, Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, John Marr and Other Sailors…”, p.28, e-artnow
  • Some tropes are universal. Boy meets girl. Betrayal and revenge. The search to discover a hidden truth.... A mother's love isn't cliché, it's universal. These things are archetypes. They're the building blocks of myth and legend. They are a big part about what it means to be human.

    Girl   Mother   Revenge  
  • 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.

    Review of Vanilla Sky, Salon Magazine, en.wikiquote.org. 2001.
  • If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.

    Death   Betrayal   Men  
    Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser, Christian J.W. J. W. Kloesel (1992). “The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings? (1867–1893)”, p.149, Indiana University Press
  • Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in order to sustain the ruling class, your masters. Like naïve children you put your trust in your political leaders. You make it possible for them to creep into your confidence, only to have them betray you to the first bidder. But even where there is no direct betrayal, the labour politicians make common cause with your enemies to keep you in leash, to prevent your direct action. The State is the pillar of capitalism, and it is ridiculous to expect any redress from it.

  • As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

    Funny   Trust   Truth  
    Quoted in Evan Esar, The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations (1949)
  • 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.

    Betrayal   Lying   Soul  
    Elia Kazan, William Baer (2000). “Elia Kazan: Interviews”, p.162, Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He's in jail now.

    Mom   Brother   Betrayal  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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