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Quotes about Betrayal

In fact, tell him I've diddled him, and perhaps somebody else.
— Herman Melville
To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden.
— Joseph Wirthlin
A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
— Frederick Douglass
America will not allow her children to love her. She seems bent on compelling those who would be her warmest friends, to be her worst enemies.
— Frederick Douglass
Evil is revealed when there is seen what it does to one who is loved.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Judas took the money back to the temple priests. So is it always. When we give up our Lord for any earthly thing sooner or later it disgusts us; we no longer wanted it.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
The crosses from the outside are bearable; the double-crosses inside are insoluble
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
They never loved in the first place, for love never takes back that which it gives, even in unfaithfulness.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
A straightforward, honest person should be like someone who stinks: when you're in the same room with him, you know it. But false straightforwardness is like a knife in the back.
— Marcus Aurelius
There is nothing more shameful than perfidious friendship.
— Marcus Aurelius
Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.
— Cicero
You know I love you. You're the only one. She isn't the first woman he's ever said that to. He shouldn't have used it up so much earlier in his life, he shouldn't have treated it like a tool, a wedge, a key to open women. By the time he got around to meaning it, the words sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been ashamed to pronounce them.
— Margaret Atwood