Quotes tagged ‘Betrayal’

“I hurt my wife, my kids, my mother, my wife's family, my friends, my foundation and kids all around the world who admired me.”

— Tiger Woods, news.bbc.co.uk

“The deepest circle of hell is reserved for betrayers and mutineers.”

— Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Captain Jack Sparrow, Johnny Depp, amazon.com

“We weren't friends. Friends tell the truth, friends don't turn on each other.”

— Brian Yorkey, Jessica Davis, Alisha Boe, imdb.com

“Clay Morrow killed your father, stole that seat away from this family, gunned down your father's best friend and he tried to kill your wife. He's a murderous traitor and there's only one thing to do now, Jackson... for your father, your family and your club. It's in you. It's who you are. Clay has t…”

— Chris Collins, Kurt Sutter, Gemma Teller Morrow, Katey Sagal, imdb.com

“Oh, I remember when Stanley told me he was having an affair. It was at least 24 hours before I cut the crotches out of all his slacks.”

— Harriett Weiss, Pat Shea, Dorothy Petrillo Zbornak, Bea Arthur, imdb.com

““I am the enemy you killed, my friend. I knew you in this dark: for so you frowned Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed. I parried; but my hands were loath and cold.”

— Wilfred Owen, amazon.com

“Tell her how it feels to be betrayed by the person you love most in the world.”

— Zander Lehmann, Alex Cole, Tommy Dewey, imdb.com

“The most painful thing is not the betrayal of trust, June. Do you know what's most painful? The most painful thing in this entire ugly incident is the ingratitude.”

— Margaret Atwood, Leila Gerstein, Aunt Lydia, Ann Dowd, imdb.com

“[T]he pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, books.google.com

“You mean my crime of passion? If anyone betrays me, I never forget!”

— Spike Feresten, Mark Jaffe, Darin Henry, Uncle Leo, Len Lesser, imdb.com

“It's a hot night. The mind races. You think about your knife; the only friend who hasn't betrayed you, the only friend who won't be dead by sun-up. Sleep tight, mates, in your quilted Chambray nightshirts.”

— Gregg Kavet, Andy Robin, Eddie, Ned Bellamy, imdb.com

“Quiet! You shut up! You make me change restaurant, but nobody comes! You say make Pakistani, Babu Bhatt have only Pakistani restaurant. But where are people? You see people? Show me people. There are no people.”

— Tom Leopold, Babu Bhatt, Brian George, imdb.com

“That's the catch about betrayal, of course: that it feels good, that there's something immensely pleasurable about moving from a complicated relationship which involves minor atrocities on both sides to a nice, neat, simple one where one person has done something so horrible and unforgivable that th…”

— Nora Ephron, books.google.com

“Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.”

— Garry Shandling, esquire.com

“Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.”

— Warsan Shire, goodreads.com

“You see, we’re tired, my heart and I, We dealt with books, we trusted men, And in our own blood drenched the pen.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, amazon.com

“Why is it that loving something provides so little protection from betrayal?”

— Ayelet Waldman, amazon.com

“I’m not really sure why. But… do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don’t think so. That’s what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger… and I still loved [them]. I still do.”

— Brandon Sanderson, amazon.com

“Finally, she said: ‘I’m lonely’ — it’s weird but you tell the wolves things, sometimes. You can’t help it, all these old wounds come open and suddenly you’re confessing to a wolf who never says anything back. She said: 'I’m lonely,’ and they ate her in the street.”

— Catherynne M. Valente, fantasy-magazine.com

“Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.”

— Cormac McCarthy, amazon.com