(174 quotes found)
“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
“A true friend stabs you in the front.”
Oscar Wilde
“You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens,”
Robert Sternberg
“Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.”
John LeCarre
“The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.”
Maya Angelou
“When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer
“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
“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
“We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.”
Tennessee Williams
