Monday 8 May 2017

Betrayal Sayings and Quotes



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

William Blake






For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.

Suzanne Collins





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.    

Sherrilyn Kenyon





Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

Barbara Kingsolver





Betrayal is about learning not to idealize external sources.

Linda Talley






Betrayal can only happen if you love.

John Le Carre





Trust is not established in the absence of betrayal, but in those whose betrayalis least.    

Wes Fessler





Betrayal does that betrays the betrayer.

Erica Jong





Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.    

Arthur Miller





All a man can betray is his conscience.    

Joseph Conrad





All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.

Robert C. Solomon





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

Tennessee Williams





You know that you have been stabbed when you feel the deep pain of betrayal.

Les Parrott





The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

Aldrich Ames






Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

Terry Goodkind





When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

Isaac Bashevis Singer





There is no greater blessing than a family hand that lifts you from a fall; but there is not lower curse than a family hand that strikes you when you're down.

Wes Fessler





There is always a lesson of a lifetime to learn in every betrayal.

Edmond Mbiaka





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

Martin Luther





Be cautious of who is holding your quarters because as soon as they get four quarters they will change them for a dollar.    

Alexis A. Davis





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.    

Sigmund Freud





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 Deitz





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.

Muhammad





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

David Levithan





Trust can take years to build, but only a second to break.

unknown





It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.    

Catharine MacKinnon





Sometimes blood isn't thicker than water and family will cross you quicker than strangers.    

unknown





Don't saw off the branch you're sitting on.

Swedish Proverbs





Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

English Proverbs





He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

Sophocles




Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be such as a worthy mind can fully delight in.    

Samuel Johnson





You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

Ed Harris





There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.    

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe





Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.    

Jean Genet





Backstabbers specialize in saying the wrong thing at the wrong time to the wrong person.    

Les Parrott





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.    

Trent Shelton






False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us when we cross into the shade.

Christian Nevell Bovee





Grow a thick skin - a very thick skin. And watch your back. For every back, there is a knife.

Lily Chatterjee





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

Eminem





It's not just about who's being real to your face, but also about who's being real behind your back.

unknown





To betray, you must first belong.

Kim Philby





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

Titus Livius






To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

Djuna Barnes





He who advises you to be reserved to your friends wishes to betray you without witnesses.    

Don J. Manuel





The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.

Maya Angelou





Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.    

William Penn





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 Deitz





When someone breaks your trust don't feel stupid for trusting them. You didn't do anything wrong they're just an untrustworthy person.    

Sonya Parker





In life you can easily trust someone, but once the trust is broken its very difficult to trust anyone again.

Sushan Sharma






It's a shame that the very people who you protect are the first ones to turn there backs on you.

Autumn Kohler

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