Betraying Friends Quotes:

Each betrayal begins with trust.

- Martin Luther

topic: Betrayal, Phish, Betraying Friends, Friend Betrayal, Betrayal Of Trust

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

- Suzanne Collins

topic: Relationship, Betrayal, Firsts, Stabbing, Love And Betrayal

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

- Malcolm X

topic: Heartbreak, Betrayal, Abandonment, Love And Betrayal, Love Betrayal

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

- David Levithan

topic: Trust, Betrayal, Mistake, Stabbing, Backstabbing

Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.

- Mineko Iwasaki

topic: Sad, Heartbreak, Heartbroken, Stabbing, Love And Betrayal

Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

- Lauren Conrad

topic: Betrayal, Years, People, Backstabbers, Friend Betrayal

It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it....

- Nicole Richie

topic: Friendship, Betrayal, Long, Stabbing, Backstabbing

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

source: Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Invincible: The Chronicles of Nick”, p.123, Macmillan

topic: Trust, Betrayal, Suffering, Not Trusting, Love And Betrayal

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

- William Blake

topic: Friendship, Forgiveness, Depressing, Stabbing, Making Friends

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

- Judy Holliday

topic: Friendship, Betrayed, Lovers, Losing Friendship, Friend Betrayal

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

- E. M. Forster

source: Two Cheers for Democracy "What I Believe" (1951)

topic: Friendship, Country, Betrayal, Friend Betrayal, Betraying Friends

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

source: Interviewed in the New York Times Magazine, 3 December 1978.

topic: Betrayal, Self Improvement, Betrayed, Love And Betrayal, Love Betrayal

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Live For Yourself, Social Life

The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.

- Heather Brewer

topic: Heartbreak, Pain, Betrayal, Losing Friendship, Love And Betrayal

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.

- Joseph Conrad

source: Joseph Conrad (2015). “Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): An Intriguing Tale of Espionage and Betrayal in Czarist Russia From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo & The Secret Agent (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.29, e-artnow

topic: Country, Betrayal, Men, Friend Betrayal, Being Betrayed

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

- Arthur Miller

source: Arthur Miller (2015). “After the Fall”, p.96, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Life, Heartbreak, Betrayal, Stabbing, Love And Betrayal

All a man can betray is his conscience.

- Joseph Conrad

topic: Men, Betray, Conscience, Being Betrayed, Betraying Friends

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

- John le Carre

topic: Love, Betrayal, Betrayed, Love And Betrayal, Love Betrayal

False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

topic: Friendship, Sunshine, Bad Friend, Losing Friends, Fake Friends

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.

- Elijah Muhammad

topic: Betrayal, Lying, Hypocrite, Friend Betrayal, Being Betrayed

Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Betrayal, Should Have, Done, Sirius, Friend Betrayal

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

topic: Betrayal, Betrayed, Looks, Friend Betrayal, Betraying Friends

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

- Tennessee Williams

topic: Truth, Betrayal, Defense, Love And Betrayal, Love Betrayal

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

- Albert Camus

topic: Relationship, Loyalty, Betrayal, Stabbing, Love And Betrayal

I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.

- Veronica Roth

topic: Hurt, Betrayal, Body, Hurting Him, Love And Betrayal

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

- Confucius

topic: Friendship, Trust, Betrayal, Stabbing, Losing Friends