# Quotes about betrayal - Quotes: 47 - Authors: 37 - Broader topic: [Quotes about relationships](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/relationships.md) - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal - JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.json ## Quotes > This man sold his country for gold. [Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md) · [The Aeneid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/this-man-sold.md) Topics: [greed](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/greed.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > Daddy thinks history starts fresh every day, every minute, that time itself begins with the feelings he’s having right now. That’s how he keeps betraying us, why he roars at us with such conviction. [Jane Smiley](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-smiley.md) · [A Thousand Acres](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-smiley/a-thousand-acres.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jane-smiley/a-thousand-acres/daddy-thinks-history.md) Topics: [father](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/father.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > “You think he may be a triple agent?” > > “It wouldn’t be the first time something like that had happened. The one thing you know about someone who’s willing to compromise his allies is that he’s willing to compromise his allies.” [James S. A. Corey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey.md) · [Persepolis Rising](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/persepolis-rising.md) · p. 472 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-s-a-corey/persepolis-rising/you-think-he-may.md) Topics: [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md), [loyalty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loyalty.md) > Betrayal wears a lot of different hats. You don't have to make a show of it like Brutus did, you don't have to leave anything visible jutting from the base of your best friend's spine, and afterward can stand there straining your ears for hours, but you won't hear a cock crow either. No, the most insidious betrayals are done merely by leaving the life jacket hanging in your closet while you lie to yourself that it's probably not the drowning man's size. That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and America, but there's no need to make a brand name of blame. Individual self-interest: that's the source of our descent, and it doesn't start in the boardroom or the war rooms either. It starts in the home. [Steve Toltz](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-toltz.md) · [A Fraction Of The Whole](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-toltz/a-fraction-of-the-whole.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steve-toltz/a-fraction-of-the-whole/betrayal-wears-a-lot.md) Topics: [selfishness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/selfishness.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > Now whole vistas of deceit opened before Guillam. His friends, his loves, even the Circus itself, joined and re-formed in endless patterns of intrigue. A line of Mendel's came back to him, dropped two nights ago as they drank beer in some glum suburban pub: “Cheer up, Peter, old son. Jesus Christ only had twelve, you know, and one of them was a double.” [John le Carré](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-le-carre.md) · [Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-le-carre/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-le-carre/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy/now-whole-vistas.md) Topics: [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > No charm is proof against a dagger in the back. [Tad Williams](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams.md) · [The Dragonbone Chair](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/the-dragonbone-chair.md) · p. 677 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tad-williams/the-dragonbone-chair/no-charm-is-proof.md) Topics: [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > Men come and go. They die, lie, or they leave you. [George RR Martin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin.md) · [A Feast for Crows](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/men-come-and.md) Topics: [loneliness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > If you share your plans with no one, no one can betray you. [George RR Martin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin.md) · [A Feast for Crows](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-feast-for-crows/if-you-share.md) Topics: [trust](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trust.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > "Ser Rodrik had you five-to-one." > > "Aye, but he thought us friends. A common mistake." [George RR Martin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin.md) · [A Clash of Kings](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-clash-of-kings/ser-rodrik-had.md) Topics: [trust](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trust.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > For fifteen years I protected him from his enemies, but I could not protect him from his friends. [George RR Martin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin.md) · [A Game of Thrones: The Illustrated Edition](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-game-of-thrones-the-illustrated-edition.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-game-of-thrones-the-illustrated-edition/for-fifteen-years.md) Topics: [friendship](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > The Pinance laughed. “I hate the man, but I have never before seen him as a fool or a coward.” > > “He is not a military man, my lord. He is a schemer, skilled in the art of politics and treachery.” > > “It seems to me that those two beasts are one and the same,” said the Pinance. [David Gemmell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell.md) · [Stormrider](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/stormrider.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-gemmell/stormrider/the-pinance-laughed.md) Topics: [politics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright. [N. K. Jemisin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin.md) · [The Broken Kingdoms](https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-broken-kingdoms.md) · p. 58 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/n-k-jemisin/the-broken-kingdoms/love-betrayed-has.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > Yes, no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we’re always licked by something from the inside. There’s no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves. [Alfred Bester](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alfred-bester.md) · [The Stars My Destination](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alfred-bester/the-stars-my-destination.md) · p. 188 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/alfred-bester/the-stars-my-destination/yes-no-matter.md) Topics: [self-deception](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/self-deception-2.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > You are worse than twenty foes, you poisonous friend! [Emily Brontë](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte.md) · [Wuthering Heights](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte/wuthering-heights.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte/wuthering-heights/you-are-worse.md) Topics: [friendship](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > When one does another person an injustice, in some mysterious way it does one good to discover (or to persuade oneself) that the injured party has also behaved badly or unfairly in some little matter or other; it is always a relief to the conscience if one can apportion some measure of guilt to the person one has betrayed. [Stefan Zweig](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig.md) · [Beware of Pity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/beware-of-pity.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stefan-zweig/beware-of-pity/when-one-does.md) Topics: [guilt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/guilt.md), [conscience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/conscience.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by. [Mark Twain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain.md) · [Pudd'nhead Wilson](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/puddnhead-wilson.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/puddnhead-wilson/gratitude-and-treachery.md) Topics: [gratitude](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/gratitude.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > That was the thing about traitors: they were people who’d already changed their minds at least once. [Iain M. Banks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks.md) · [Surface Detail](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/surface-detail.md) · p. 626 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/surface-detail/that-was-the.md) Topics: [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED! DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU! [J.K. Rowling](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jk-rowling.md) · [Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jk-rowling/harry-potter-and-the-prisoner-of-azkaban.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jk-rowling/harry-potter-and-the-prisoner-of-azkaban/then-you-should.md) Topics: [friendship](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/friendship.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > They were betrayed, Oracle. Ganver tells me there is no anger greater than that of a zealot betrayed. [Sheri S. Tepper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper.md) · [Jinian Star-Eye](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/jinian-star-eye.md) · p. 227 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/jinian-star-eye/they-were-betrayed.md) Topics: [anger](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/anger.md), [fanaticism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fanaticism.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > His understanding is not great, but his sense of power and treachery is unfailing. [Sheri S. Tepper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper.md) · [The Search of Mavin Manyshaped](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-search-of-mavin-manyshaped.md) · p. 122 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/the-search-of-mavin-manyshaped/his-understanding-is-not.md) Topics: [power](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > I'm a man who falls in love so easily, and with such a reckless lack of consideration for the consequences of my actions, that from the very first instant of entering into a marriage I become, almost by definition, an adulterer. [Michael Chabon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-chabon.md) · [Wonder Boys](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-chabon/wonder-boys.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-chabon/wonder-boys/im-a-man.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > The man had to be tense, Popov knew. Betrayal was how most of the people like Fürchtner got caught, and though Dmitriy was known and trusted by them, you could only be betrayed by someone whom you trusted, a fact known to every covert operator in the world. [Tom Clancy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-clancy.md) · [Rainbow Six](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-clancy/rainbow-six.md) · p. 145 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tom-clancy/rainbow-six/the-man-had.md) Topics: [trust](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/trust.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > Thus woman trusts in man down all the years and so, as always, is betrayed. [Michael Moorcock](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock.md) · [The City in the Autumn Stars](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars.md) · p. 446 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/thus-woman-trusts.md) Topics: [women](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/women.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > But now the Mob’s passing whim had become the only law, as Robespierre himself would soon discover. I felt cruelly betrayed: by the Revolution, by men I had embraced as brothers, by Circumstance, and, as always, by God. [Michael Moorcock](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock.md) · [The City in the Autumn Stars](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars.md) · p. 177 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-moorcock/the-city-in-the-autumn-stars/but-now-the.md) Topics: [revolution](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/revolution.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > Some people actually cheat on the people that they're cheating with, which is like holding up a bank and then turning to the robber next to you and going, "All right, give me everything you got, too." [Jerry Seinfeld](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jerry-seinfeld.md) · [Seinlanguage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jerry-seinfeld/seinlanguage.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jerry-seinfeld/seinlanguage/some-people-actually.md) Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it. [Margaret Atwood](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood.md) · [The Year of the Flood](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood/the-year-of-the-flood.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/margaret-atwood/the-year-of-the-flood/how-easy-it-is-treachery.md) Topics: [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop. [John Hoyer Updike](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike.md) · [Couples](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/couples.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/couples/the-first-breath.md) Topics: [marriage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks latenesses, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patchings to repair great rents in the quotidian. [John Hoyer Updike](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike.md) · [Couples](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/couples.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/couples/it-is-not.md) Topics: [lies](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/lies.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause. [John Hoyer Updike](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike.md) · [Couples](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/couples.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-hoyer-updike/couples/an-affair-wants.md) Topics: [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > Liberals have a preternatural gift for striking a position on the side of treason. [Ann Coulter](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-coulter.md) · [Treason](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-coulter/treason.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ann-coulter/treason/liberals-have-a-preternatural.md) Topics: [politics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > 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](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad.md) · [Under Western Eyes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/under-western-eyes.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/under-western-eyes/they-talk-of-a-man.md) Topics: [conscience](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/conscience.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > Here it was again, the most ancient of roadforks, one that Paul had glimpsed before, in Kroner's study, months ago. The choice of one course or the other had nothing to do with machines, hierarchies, economics, love, age. It was a purely internal matter. Every child older than six knew the fork, and knew what the good guys did here, and what the bad guys did here. The fork was a familiar one in folk tales the world over, and the good guys and the bad guys, whether in chaps, breechclouts, serapes, leopardskins, or banker's gray pinstripes, all separated here. > > Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't — no matter when, no matter what. [Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut.md) · [Player Piano](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/player-piano.md) · p. 293 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/player-piano/here-it-was.md) Topics: [evil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil.md), [kindness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/kindness.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > Here's my throat. I carry no weapon. You could have killed me at any time, even when I knew you were my enemy. Why did you need to deceive me into trusting you first? Were you afraid that death wouldn't bother me enough, unless I felt betrayed? [Orson Scott Card](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card.md) · [The Memory Of Earth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-memory-of-earth.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/orson-scott-card/the-memory-of-earth/heres-my-throat.md) Topics: [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > I remember I asked old Childs if he thought Judas, the one that betrayed Jesus and all, went to Hell after he committed suicide. Childs said certainly. That's exactly where I disagreed with him. I said I'd bet a thousand bucks that Jesus never sent old Judas to Hell. I still would, too, if I had a thousand bucks. I think any one of the Disciples would've sent him to Hell and all — and fast, too — but I'll bet anything Jesus didn't do it. [J.D. Salinger](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jd-salinger.md) · [The Catcher in the Rye](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jd-salinger/the-catcher-in-the-rye.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jd-salinger/the-catcher-in-the-rye/i-remember-i-asked.md) Topics: [forgiveness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/forgiveness.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors. [Gore Vidal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal.md) · [Julian](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/julian.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gore-vidal/julian/traitors-who-prevail.md) Topics: [power](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power.md), [history](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/history.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > To evil end shall all things turn that they begin well; and by treason of kin unto kin, and the fear of treason, shall this come to pass. The Dispossessed shall they be for ever. [J. R. R. Tolkien](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien.md) · [The Silmarillion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien/the-silmarillion.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien/the-silmarillion/to-evil-end.md) Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > Great was the triumph of Morgoth, and his design was accomplished in a manner after his own heart; for Men took the lives of Men, and betrayed the Eldar, and fear and hatred were aroused among those that should have been united against him. [J. R. R. Tolkien](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien.md) · [The Silmarillion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien/the-silmarillion.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien/the-silmarillion/great-was-the.md) Topics: [hatred](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing. [Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky.md) · [Crime And Punishment](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/crime-and-punishment.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fyodor-dostoyevsky/crime-and-punishment/your-worst-sin.md) Topics: [sin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sin.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill. But such falls and betrayals, alas, have happened before. [J. R. R. Tolkien](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien.md) · [The Fellowship of the Ring](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/j-r-r-tolkien/the-fellowship-of-the-ring/it-is-perilous.md) Topics: [evil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/evil.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing. [Jorge Luis Borges](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jorge-luis-borges.md) · [Ficciones](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jorge-luis-borges/ficciones.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jorge-luis-borges/ficciones/in-adultery-there.md) Topics: [sin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sin.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > "Sometimes," she said, "they threaten you with something — something you can’t stand up to, can’t even think about. And then you say, 'Don’t do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to so-and-so.' And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't really mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself." [George Orwell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell.md) · [Nineteen Eighty-Four](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/sometimes-she-said.md) Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md), [selfishness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/selfishness.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > "Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter: only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you—that would be the real betrayal." > > She thought it over. "They can't do that," she said finally. "It's the one thing they can't do. They can't make you believe it. They can't get inside you." > > "No," he said a little more hopefully, "no; that's quite true. They can't get inside you. If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them." [George Orwell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell.md) · [Nineteen Eighty-Four](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/nineteen-eighty-four/confession-is-not.md) Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > When lovely woman stoops to folly, > > And finds too late that men betray, > > What charm can soothe her melancholy, > > What art can wash her guilt away? [Oliver Goldsmith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/oliver-goldsmith.md) · [The Vicar of Wakefield](https://www.leafyquotes.com/oliver-goldsmith/the-vicar-of-wakefield.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/oliver-goldsmith/the-vicar-of-wakefield/when-lovely-woman.md) Topics: [guilt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/guilt.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > He upbraided Macro, in no obscure and indirect terms, "with forsaking the setting sun and turning to the rising". [Tacitus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tacitus.md) · [Annals](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tacitus/annals.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tacitus/annals/he-upbraided-macro.md) Topics: [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > They all cheat sooner or later. You might as well have one who isn't a bore the rest of the time. [Erica Jong](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong.md) · [How to Save Your Own Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/how-to-save-your-own-life/they-all-cheat.md) Topics: [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > The young woman seemed to take pleasure in being bold and shameless. She had no hesitation, no fear whatsoever. She threw herself into adultery with a sort of vigorous sincerity, defying danger and doing so with a sort of vanity in her defiance. [Emile Zola](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emile-zola.md) · [Thérèse Raquin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emile-zola/therese-raquin.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emile-zola/therese-raquin/the-young-woman.md) Topics: [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md) > He was on his way to see Harriet about the alimony payments. He still loved Harriet, even though while they were married she had systematically attempted to commit adultery with all the R's in the Manhattan telephone directory. [Woody Allen](https://www.leafyquotes.com/woody-allen.md) · [Without Feathers](https://www.leafyquotes.com/woody-allen/without-feathers.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/woody-allen/without-feathers/he-was-on-his.md) Topics: [marriage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/marriage.md), [betrayal](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/betrayal.md)