Quotes about Betrayal

The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment. Whoever you met will reappear, whoever you lost will return. Don't betray the grace that was bestowed on you. Understand what is going on inside you and you will understand what is going on inside everyone else. Don't imagine that I came to bring peace. I came with a sword.

When I had my sheep, I was happy, and I made those around me happy. People saw me coming and welcomed me, he thought. But now I'm sad and alone. I'm going to become bitter and distrustful of people because one person betrayed me. I'm going to hate those who have found their treasure because I never found mine. And I'm going to hold on to what little I have, because I'm too insignificant to conquer the world.

My friends, there are no friends.

In Into the Woods, Cinderella runs from her prince, Rapunzel is thrown from a tower for her prince, and Sleeping Beauty just thought she was getting coffee with Bill Cosby.

If one Egyptian tailor hadn't cheated on the threads of Joseph's mantle, Potiphar's wife would never have been able to tear it, present it as evidence to Potiphar that Joseph attacked her, gotten him thrown in prison, and let him be in a position to interpret Pharaoh's dream, win his confidence, advise him to store seven years of grain, and save his family, the seventy original Jews from whom Jesus came. We owe our salvation to a cheap Egyptian tailor.

Sin is to faith what infidelity is to marriage.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

Every man has his own courage and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.