Quotes about Betrayal
If your banker breaks, you snap; if your apothecary by mistake sends you poison in your pills, you die.
- Herman Melville
Donald Trump is a breath of fresh air in the nation where the political establishment from both parties has betrayed their constituencies time and time again.
- Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.
- Maya Angelou
for he would have betrayed the gospel. Then I watched as one of the Methodist congregations I attended built a $120,000 stained-glass window. Wesley would not have been happy. I stared at that window. I longed for Jesus to break out of it, to free himself, to come to rise from the dead… again.
- Shane Claiborne
It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature—and that the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning—and it is those few that I have always sought to address.
- Ayn Rand
I dropped to the ground and swept my hand across the smooth yellow tile. Oh, Father, I cried. There was no shame in your confusion. Just as there had been no shame in your father's before you. No shame in the fear, or in the fear of his father before him. There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. It was the silence that betrayed us.
- Barack Obama
What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.
- Euripides
Screw you, Aech! And your dead grandma!
- Ernest Cline
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
- Ernest Hemingway
Oh! Can you believe it? The chaste city has become a whore! She was once all justice, everyone living as good neighbors, And now they're all at one another's throats. Your coins are all counterfeits. Your wine is watered down. Your leaders are turncoats who keep company with crooks. They sell themselves to the highest bidder and grab anything not nailed down. They never stand up for the homeless, never stick up for the defenseless.
- Eugene Peterson
What anger worse or slower to abate then lovers love when it turns to hate.
- Euripides
A second wife is hateful to the children of the first a viper is not more hateful.
- Euripides