(139 quotes found)
“Your greatness is measured by your kindness; your education and intellect by your modesty; your ignorance is betrayed by your suspicions and prejudices, and your real caliber is measured by the consideration and tolerance you have for others.”
William J. H. Boetcker
“We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.”
Tennessee Williams
“I'm like a lion - I roar. If someone betrays me, I won't be a victim. I don't sulk, I get angry. I go immediately into retaliation. But it always comes from insecurity or pain.”
Lisa Marie Presley
“The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.”
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
“When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.”
William Penn
“Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.”
John LeCarre
“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.”
Arthur Miller
“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
“Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling