(146 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
“When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.”
Isaac Bashevis Singer
“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
“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
“Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.”
John LeCarre
“Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.”
William Penn
“Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.”
Arthur Miller
“The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.”
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette