Quotes and Sayings about Betrayal

 

 

"Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust."
- Aldrich Ames
(Related: Trust, Betrayal)

"Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust."
- Aldrich Ames
(Related: Trust, People, Betrayal)

"Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told."
- Chastity Bono
(Related: Anger, Mom, Betrayal, Deep, Gay, Hurt, Sense)

"I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit."
- Lucien Bouchard
(Related: Betrayal, Deceit, Expression)

"The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself."
- Charles Bronson
(Related: Anger, Fear, Betrayal, Body, First, Frustration)

"Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself. You always worry about charlatans. We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought."
- Charles Bronson
(Related: Thought, Betrayal, Body, Worry)

"Within the pages of The Betrayal of America I prove that these justices were absolutely up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush."
- Vincent Bugliosi
(Related: America, Betrayal)

"And I think within the pages of The Betrayal of America I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush."
- Vincent Bugliosi
(Related: America, Betrayal, Present)

"A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices."
- Vincent Bugliosi
(Related: Legal, Thought, America, Betrayal, Committee, Giving)

"Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love."
- John le Carre
(Related: Love, Betrayal)

"Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes."
- Tom Cochrane
(Related: Life, Failure, Betrayal, Compromise, Dignity, Integrity, Tragedy)

"Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests."
- Louis Farrakhan
(Related: Goals, Betrayal, May)

"Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right."
- William Feather
(Related: Betrayal, Luck, Right)

"The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them "outside" of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter."
- Raymond E. Feist
(Related: Betrayal, Choices, Games)

"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
(Related: Betrayal, Eyes, May)

"Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all."
- Jean Genet
(Related: Betrayal, Ecstasy, Nothing)

"Betrayal... is my favorite subject."
- Norman Jewison
(Related: Betrayal, Favorite)

"There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell."
- Sean Lennon
(Related: Love, Failure, Betrayal, End)

"No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes."
- Greil Marcus
(Related: Love, Money, Failure, America, Betrayal)

"Betrayal is the only truth that sticks."
- Arthur Miller
(Related: Truth, Betrayal)

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
- Anais Nin
(Related: Love, Death, Blindness, Errors, Illness, Wounds)

"Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?"
- Jean Renoir
(Related: Act, Betrayal, Succeed)

"When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal."
- Paul Simon
(Related: Betrayal)

"You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government."
- Ralph Steadman
(Related: Government, Trust, People, Betrayal)

"When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again."
- Esther Williams
(Related: Funny, People, Betrayal, Feeling, Sight)

"We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal."
- Tennessee Williams
(Related: Betrayal, Defense, Distrust)