Betrayal Sayings and Quotes

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.     
- William Blake


For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.
-Suzanne Collins


Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It's what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don't let them take that from you.     
-Sherrilyn Kenyon


Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.
-Barbara Kingsolver


Betrayal is about learning not to idealize external sources.
-Linda Talley


Betrayal can only happen if you love.

-John Le Carre


Trust is not established in the absence of betrayal, but in those whose betrayalis least.     

-Wes Fessler

Betrayal does that betrays the betrayer.

-Erica Jong


Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.     

-Arthur Miller


All a man can betray is his conscience.     

-Joseph Conrad


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

-Robert C. Solomon


We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

-Tennessee Williams

You know that you have been stabbed when you feel the deep pain of betrayal.
-Les Parrott



The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.
-Aldrich Ames

Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.
-Terry Goodkind



When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer



There is no greater blessing than a family hand that lifts you from a fall; but there is not lower curse than a family hand that strikes you when you're down.
-Wes Fessler



There is always a lesson of a lifetime to learn in every betrayal.
-Edmond Mbiaka



All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself.
-Martin Luther



Be cautious of who is holding your quarters because as soon as they get four quarters they will change them for a dollar.      
-Alexis A. Davis



He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.     
-Sigmund Freud

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



There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust.
-Muhammad



It was a mistake, you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.
-David Levithan



Trust can take years to build, but only a second to break.
-unknown



It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.     
-Catharine MacKinnon



Sometimes blood isn't thicker than water and family will cross you quicker than strangers.     
-unknown



Don't saw off the branch you're sitting on.
-Swedish Proverbs



Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
-English Proverbs



He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.
-Sophocles