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Betrayal Quotes

We’ve collected the best Betrayal Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Charles Bronson, Vincent Bugliosi, Paul Simon, Salman Rushdie, Tennessee Williams. Use them as an inspiration.

1
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.
2
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.
3
When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
4
There are two things in Indian history – one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential – for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.
5
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
6
In the kind of New England I’m from, you are expected to stay and marry somebody from New England – well, Maine, actually – so I think it was seen as a betrayal when I left for New York, which has been my refuge.
7
For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public.
8
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 themoutside‘ of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter.
9
With the single parent model, you experience betrayal differently. You experience lying from your kids differently.
10
I know the feeling of confusion and betrayal. I know the feeling of fearing for my life.
11
I would never let somebody say that they’re me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
12
Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal.
13
At base, the ugly meaning of collaborator carries an implication of treason: betrayal of one’s nation, of one’s ideology, of one’s morality, of one’s values.
14
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
15
Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that’s a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.
16
The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.
17
Betrayal… is my favorite subject.
18
I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specialising in allergies. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two ‘I’s’ struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveller.
19
When marketers influence habits, they influence peoples’ self-identity. And so when a group or company does something that doesn’t correspond to our core values, it feels like a betrayal.
20
Hillary Clinton cannot run away from her own record of incompetence or from the Obama record of abject betrayal.
21
The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.
22
Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.
23
People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the endwhether we’ve had direct experience or not – there’s part of you that knows there’s absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.
24
The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows.
25
Cheating tends to come up a lot in my songs. Betrayal fascinates me. I think the fact that you can trust someone so much and then they go against that has always plagued my writing for some reason.
26
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.
27
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.
28
To give the personal details of Ukrainians to the Russian authorities would not only be against the law, but also a betrayal of those millions of people in Ukraine who trusted us.
29
Living in France while the Falklands War was going on, I felt a profound sense of shame and betrayal, just as I did by the war in Iraq. People have asked why I don’t talk about that directly in my plays. Well, politics needs to be articulated in many different ways.
30
To give the personal details of Ukrainians to the Russian authorities would not only be against the law, but also a betrayal of those millions of people in Ukraine who trusted us.
31
My plays are ultimately about love, honor, duty, betrayal.
32
For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.
33
I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specialising in allergies. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two ‘I’s’ struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveller.
34
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.
35
I dispute that ‘Closer‘ is about betrayal. Betrayal is one of the elements.
36
Betrayal is one of my biggest fears. Betrayal happens on many different levels all the time, and there is no worse feeling than realizing someone you thought you could trust has gone against you.
37
Slavery was the betrayal of the American Promise at the moment that promise was made.
38
‘Under the Poppy‘ is the love story of Istvan and Rupert, lovers and friends from childhood, who’ve been parted by jealousy – and a secret betrayal by Istvan’s sister, Decca, who also loves Rupert, with whom she runs the brothel called Under the Poppy, where the floozies cater to every taste from saucy to peculiar.
Kathe Koja
39
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
40
Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire – when you’re telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.
41
When I’m doing a play like ‘Betrayal,’ I have to be careful not to get stimulation overload.
42
I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.
Lucien Bouchard
43
Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations – but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.
44
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.
45
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.
46
In ‘Se7en’ and ‘Fight Club,’ Fincher proved his suave mastery of film violence; in Zodiac, his way of clarifying the many clues in a murder thriller. As he showed in ‘The Social Network,’ the director also knows that no wound is more toxic than a friend’s betrayal.
47
The death of Yemeni strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh shows that Saudi Arabia is paying for its betrayal of the Arab spring in Yemen in 2011.
48
There are two things in Indian history – one is the incredible optimism and potential of the place, and the other is the betrayal of that potential – for example, corruption. Those two strands intertwine through the whole of Indian history, and maybe not just Indian history.
49
My position on democracy is really clear. Any attempt to overthrow the country is a betrayal to our unity and is treason.
50
I think Le Carre is a great modernist writer, which is to say, in a godless world, he invokes deep, almost religious ideas of betrayal, trust, faith, and that’s why we love it.
51
My position on democracy is really clear. Any attempt to overthrow the country is a betrayal to our unity and is treason.
52
Each project you do demands a different diet in a way. Because there’s so much tension in ‘Betrayal,’ so much holding of breath and emotion, I can’t get too happy in my food choices or I can’t get alert enough.
53
Not to invent yourself is to be false. To follow preordained rules is a profound betrayal of what it means to be human.
54
You see that’s what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.
Ralph Steadman
55
There’s a lot of stupid men out there who feel like makeup is a betrayal of the truth, and that is so funny to me.
56
Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.
57
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.
58
Empathy is not a betrayal of one’s cause.
59
Cheating tends to come up a lot in my songs. Betrayal fascinates me. I think the fact that you can trust someone so much and then they go against that has always plagued my writing for some reason.
60
Anna Karenina’ is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It’s gossip, rubbish – on the other hand, it’s the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
Hanif Kureishi
61
I like to shoot feature films because it’s about capturing emotionswords like guilt, hurt, betrayal.
62
Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
63
I was told that, when ‘Betrayal’ was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
64
The problem is that everywhere the gas drilling industry goes, a trail of water contamination, air pollution, health concerns and betrayal of basic American civic and community values follows.
65
Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
Jean Genet
66
What public health really is is a trust. That’s why I used the term ‘Betrayal of Trust’ as the title of my book. It’s a trust between the government and the people.
Laurie Garrett
67
The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan.
68
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.
69
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
70
I know the feeling of confusion and betrayal. I know the feeling of fearing for my life.
71
Rather than writing about international events, I write about individual lives. There is elation and sadness, death and birth, love and jealousy, co-operation and betrayal. All the great emotional transactions that happen wherever people come together.
72
I have never known a more vulgar expression of betrayal and deceit.
Lucien Bouchard
73
When marketers influence habits, they influence peoples’ self-identity. And so when a group or company does something that doesn’t correspond to our core values, it feels like a betrayal.
74
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.
75
Pursuing fame is the ultimate in people-pleasing and the ultimate betrayal of self.
76
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
77
A lot of people have experienced a relationship betrayal, even if it was when they were 16 and with their first love.
78
Women are upset if their partner has an intimate conversation of any kind with someone who isn’t them. They consider it a violation, a betrayal. Men should think this way, but they don’t.
79
California Bones‘ is the first volume in my trilogy about Daniel Blackland, a wizard trying to survive in a world that eats wizards. It’s a book about friends and family, trust and betrayal, the love of power and the power of love.
80
I would never let somebody say that they’re me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
81
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.
82
Not to invent yourself is to be false. To follow preordained rules is a profound betrayal of what it means to be human.
83
Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
84
Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations – but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.
85
I stand on the black side of issues, philosophically, politically, socially, and for me to not check that box, I felt like, would be some sort of betrayal of not only who I am but also the community I affiliate with.
86
The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.
87
As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.
88
At base, the ugly meaning of collaborator carries an implication of treason: betrayal of one’s nation, of one’s ideology, of one’s morality, of one’s values.
89
As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.
90
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.
91
The Aadhar data that was leaked to American companies was, in a way, a betrayal to the country.
92
We feel like ‘Lostdeserved a real resolution, not a ‘snow globe, waking up in bed, it’s all been a dream, cut to black’ kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that’s been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.
93
Each project you do demands a different diet in a way. Because there’s so much tension in ‘Betrayal,’ so much holding of breath and emotion, I can’t get too happy in my food choices or I can’t get alert enough.
94
When somebody says that a comic steals jokes, it’s the ultimate betrayal of comedy.
95
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.
96
My plays are ultimately about love, honor, duty, betrayal.
97
Women are upset if their partner has an intimate conversation of any kind with someone who isn’t them. They consider it a violation, a betrayal. Men should think this way, but they don’t.
98
Betrayal can be extremely painful, but it’s up to you how much that pain damages you permanently.
99
Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.
100
Betrayal can be extremely painful, but it’s up to you how much that pain damages you permanently.
101
Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?
Jean Renoir
102
With the single parent model, you experience betrayal differently. You experience lying from your kids differently.
103
I was told that, when ‘Betrayal’ was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
104
Woman to woman, I shared a connection with Omarosa as a friend and a campaign sister, and I am absolutely shocked and saddened by her betrayal and violation on a deeply personal level.
105
For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.
106
Familial betrayal is, to me, the most heartbreaking kind – because if you can’t trust your family to love you and protect you, who can you really trust?
107
I would not have stayed at a university if it told me upfront that a condition for me getting tenure. my views have to be filtered through Catholic values. I would consider it a betrayal of my parentslegacy.
108
California Bones‘ is the first volume in my trilogy about Daniel Blackland, a wizard trying to survive in a world that eats wizards. It’s a book about friends and family, trust and betrayal, the love of power and the power of love.
109
The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan.
110
Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments of capital. Confronted with this squalid betrayal, one imagines he would have felt sick and oppressed.
111
I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn’t end, I’ll go to a French movie. That’s a betrayal of trust to me. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can’t just build off the first one or play variations.
112
The greatest betrayal of the liberal left in this country is by the Labour party.
113
When I’m doing a play like ‘Betrayal,’ I have to be careful not to get stimulation overload.
114
The greatest betrayal of the liberal left in this country is by the Labour party.
115
Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.
Anita Shreve