Quotes on Betrayal

You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a 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.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

I believe that drudgery and clock-watching are a terrible betrayal of that universal, inborn entrepreneurial spirit.

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.

Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.

My highest achievement: never shutting my heart down. Even in my darkest moments - through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies and betrayals - I remained faithful, hopeful, and open to seeing the best in people, regardless of whether they were showing me their worst. I stayed open to believing that no matter how hard the climb, there is always a way to let in a sliver of light to illuminate the path forward.

All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

As a rule, panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

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

No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver....The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.

Each betrayal begins with trust.

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.