Difficult Emotions: Betrayal Quotes

Explore quotes that reflect the sting of broken trust and the complex aftermath of betrayal. Thoughtful lines highlight disillusionment, boundaries, and the slow rebuilding of confidence. Themes include loyalty, self-protection, and choosing whom to trust again. Whether you are processing recent hurt or seeking perspective, these voices offer clarity, caution, and resilience. Find words that name the rupture, honor self-respect, and encourage wiser connections.

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"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool"

Stephen King, Author

Stephen King

"Trust dies but mistrust blossoms"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery"

Aeschylus, Playwright

Aeschylus

"But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me"

George III, Royalty

"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, Psychologist

Sigmund Freud

"But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago"

Marc Wallice, Actor

Marc Wallice

"Love is a game in which one always cheats"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

Honore de Balzac

"Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing"

Richard M. Nixon, President

Richard M. Nixon

"Men are only as loyal as their options"

Bill Maher, Comedian

"Am I a fool? I don't think I'm a fool. But I think I sure was fooled"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face"

Piper Laurie, Actress

"Let no such man be trusted"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"I've been told by people that it's okay to cry but, you know what, it's been used against me"

Peter Steele, Musician

Peter Steele

"Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me"

John Dryden, Poet

John Dryden

"You forget that sometimes people are out there to get you - they don't even have a reason"

Marion Jones, Athlete

Marion Jones

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

John Le Carre, Author

John Le Carre

"On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary"

Whittaker Chambers, Writer

"Is it possible to succeed without any act of betrayal?"

Jean Renoir, Director

"Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends"

Zhang Ziyi, Actress

"The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo"

Aldrich Ames, Criminal

"Men's vows are women's traitors!"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

Charles de Gaulle

"The cruelest lies are often told in silence"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder"

William Faulkner, Novelist

William Faulkner

"A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying"

Lawrence Durrell, Writer

"The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike"

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Novelist

"This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate"

Thomas Dekker, Dramatist

Thomas Dekker

"Silence is sometimes the severest criticism"

Charles Buxton, Public Servant

"To love without criticism is to be betrayed"

Djuna Barnes, Novelist

Djuna Barnes

"Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all"

Jean Genet, Dramatist

"The coward's weapon, poison"

John Fletcher, Dramatist

"Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip"

Richard Steele, Dramatist

Richard Steele

"I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them"

Maria Monk, Celebrity

"Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust"

Aldrich Ames, Criminal

"Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man"

Arnold Rothstein, Businessman

"The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is"

Marguerite de Valois, Royalty

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