When honesty is conspicuous by its absence, some people take the liberty of lying and deceiving, either behind the back or directly to the face.
Betrayal occurs when someone we thought we trusted plays a trick on us, speaking badly about us or failing to fulfill a commitment he had made. Betrayal can cause a lot of discomfort and sadness, and many individuals place all their trust in that person, be it a friend or a boyfriend or girlfriend, and are left with tremendous disappointment.
Famous phrases about betrayal of a partner and friendship
Friendship can break into a thousand pieces when betrayal occurs. Often, betrayals are related to infidelity and disloyalty. When a betrayal occurs between a couple, it is usually caused by marital infidelity.
Although betrayals can be of different types and have different circumstances, several writers and thinkers in history have left famous phrases about betrayal. In this article we are going to discover the most remembered ones that best illustrate this unpleasant feeling of having been deceived.
1. No matter how faithful one wants to be, one never fails to betray the uniqueness of the other to whom one addresses. (Jacques Derrida)
A famous quote from the French philosopher that opens our point of view.
2. He who inclines to be a traitor will later return to his agreement. (Tirso de Molina)
The Spanish writer leaves us this phrase to reflect on.
3. In the psychological analysis of the great betrayals you will always find the foolishness of Judas Iscariot. (Antonio Machado)
The Spanish poet reminds us of one of the most famous traitors in history.
4. Many of them, to please tyrants, for a handful of coins, or for bribery or bribery, are betraying and shedding the blood of their brothers. (Emiliano Zapata)
The Mexican revolutionary talks about how traitors sell themselves to the powerful for moral and material misery.
5. All those who are afraid or all those who think of betraying in some way are moderate. (Ernesto Che Guevara)
According to the Argentine Marxist leader, firmness of convictions is only found in radicalism.
6. If you complain that I betray you, find me enemies that I can hate. (Pierre Corneille)
The French poet makes us reflect on the loss of trust in a close friend.
7. He who wants to be a tyrant and does not kill Brutus, and he who wants to establish a free State and does not kill Brutus’s children, will only preserve his work for a short time. (Nicolas Machiavelli)
If you want to guarantee that you are not going to be betrayed, nip any suspicious element in the bud.
8. There are daggers in men’s smiles; the closer they are, the bloodier. (William Shakespeare)
You can’t trust anyone but yourself.
9. Those who knowingly let the king err deserve punishment as traitors. (Alfonso X the Wise)
If you have people in your environment who remain silent when they should warn you, think about changing friends.
10. We laugh at honor and then are surprised to find traitors among us. (Clive Lewis)
To be honorable, we first have to give it the importance it deserves.
11. You can betray me once. One time only. (Isaac Hayes)
Never again let them take advantage of your trust.
12. Just thinking about betraying is already a completed betrayal. (Cesare Cantu)
The simple fact of raising it already makes you a traitor, according to the Italian historian.
13. If you betray your partner, you betray all the foundations on which your credibility as a human being is based (Ruth Gatling)
About infidelity in dating.
14. More betrayals are committed out of weakness than out of a firm intention to commit treason. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
Laziness and comfort can also lead to betrayal by omission.
15. The time is coming when honorability is the exception and betrayal is the norm. (Mario Vargas Llosa)
The writer complains of living in an era plagued by imposture.
16. Infidelity is like being a partner with someone and stealing money from the till. (Fernando Sabino)
About how bad it is to cheat on someone.
17. Jealousy can forgive everything except the suspicion of infidelity. (Augusto Roa)
Relationship problems are accentuated when jealousy intervenes in the relationship.
18. Infidelity is deception. It is breaking an emotional-sexual pact that you had with your partner. Fidelity is not the absence of desire for others, but something more than love, it is an act of will; That’s where reason comes in, I decide to be faithful with self-control and avoidance at the same time. If I need to have a lot of people, besides my partner, then I should look for a partner who thinks the same as me. (Walter Riso)
The writer explains his point of view about partner betrayal.
19. Betraying a friend is such an immoral act that the person who commits such a misdeed should never look up from the ground. (Facundo Cabral)
A radical vision from the Argentine writer.
20. The last temptation is the greatest betrayal: giving in to duty or to the wrong reason. (TS Eliot)
The wear and tear caused by various temptations can lead us to fall into incorrect attitudes.
21. I love betrayal, but I hate the traitor. (Julius Caesar)
An original reflection of the Roman emperor.
22. We must distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. (Tennessee Williams)
A sad but true phrase. Only our insight can keep us from being betrayed.
23. A traitor can betray himself and unintentionally do good. (JRR Tolkien)
A paradox from the hand of the creator of The Lord of the Rings.
24. A man cannot have a worse fate than to be surrounded by traitor souls. (William Burroughs)
If you have had to live near many people who are not trustworthy, shield yourself and protect yourself.
25. With the ashes of the traitors we will build the Homeland of the humble. (Eva Peron)
Argentine politics leaves us with an ambitious phrase to propose the future.
26. A single betrayal is enough to start distrusting even the most loyal. (Fred Rogers)
It is advisable not to take distrust to an extreme.
27. Ambition often makes traitors. (Queen Christina of Sweden)
Ambition can be a double-edged sword.
28. Good success makes heroic victors, and bad success makes vile traitors. (Anonymous)
A curious duality of success.
29. A traitor is anyone who disagrees with me. (George III of the United Kingdom)
One of the most remembered phrases of this monarch with authoritarian tendencies.
30. For every reason to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. (Bo Bennett)
An aphorism to reject deception and betrayal.
31. Someone who lies about small things will also lie about big things. (Terry McAuliffe)
A warning about the tendency to lie.
32. Imagination, the betrayer of the mind, has taken my loneliness and killed it. (Robinson Jeffers)
Imagination breaks patterns and goes beyond consensus, so in a way it betrays.
33. Disunity by force is treason. (Andrew Jackson)
A reflection on attempts to sow discord.
34. The most hurtful thing about a betrayal is that it is never an enemy who signs it. (Roberto Martínez Guzmán)
About emotional impact of betrayal
35. A lie can go around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes. (Charles Spurgeon)
A sad fact about how quickly falsehoods spread.
36. Whoever buys you today with flattery, tomorrow will sell you with his betrayal. (Anonymous)
A double-sided coin in the world of interest-based relationships.
37. Betrayal is a stain that never ages. (Elena Anaya)
About the mark left by betrayal.
38. Cynicism is intellectual betrayal. (Norman Cousins)
About the way of thinking of cynics and their relationship with the truth.
39. Lack of gratitude is a betrayal of humanity. (James Thompson)
You have to be grateful for the progress that took place in the past.
40. The love sick, the betrayed and the jealous have the same smell. (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette)
About the attitude and way of thinking and feeling of three apparently different profiles.
41. Don’t waste your time getting revenge for a love’s betrayal. Leave that to karma.
Karma is cosmic justice that gives everyone what they deserve.
42. True love never betrays.
Those who truly love know it.
43. The worst thing about betrayals is that they come from your brothers.
A betrayal from an enemy will not hurt us as much as that of a friend.
44. Disappointment and betrayal cause the same pain. (Juli Wallas)
The people we love the most are the ones who disappoint us the most when they fail us.
45. Traitors will pay their guilt. (Pablo Milanés)
One of the best-known verses of the song “I will tread the streets again,” which tells us about the Coup d’état in Chile in 1973.
46. Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent. (Ayn Rand)
A phrase that advocates being ruthless at all times with the guilty, to honor the innocent.
47. Judas showed that not everyone who kisses loves.
Some people we consider friends can betray us.
48. Life is struggle and torment, disappointment, love and sacrifice, sunsets of black gold and storms. (Laurence Olivier)
We better get used to betrayal and disappointment if we don’t want to suffer in life.
49. The greatest disappointment is always a consequence of betrayal.
Nothing hurts more than being betrayed by the person we love the most.
50. Betrayal is breaking trust.
Trust can be lost with a single betrayal that hurts us.
The traditional sexist conception conceives a woman as a being capable of betraying her partner to achieve all her goals.
52. Betrayal is largely a matter of habit. (John le Carré)
People used to betraying their loved ones usually do so on a regular basis.
53. Deception is temporary, betrayal is instant.
The pain we feel when someone close to us betrays us is usually persistent and is not comparable to any other.
54. A rope that is broken by betrayal can be retied, but it will never be a whole one.
Betrayal is one of the most difficult things to repair, especially in love and friendship.
55. When betrayal embraces you it is because the traitor walks with you.
We must get rid of those who try to betray us, in order to live more peacefully.
56. He who is not faithful and sincere with his friends will never enjoy the trust of his superiors. (Confucius)
Those who cultivate fidelity and sincerity with their friends usually do so with other people as well.
57. Disappointments do not kill, and hopes make you live. (George Sand)
Even if they disappoint us, we can always hold on to our hopes to move forward.
58. Our greatest successes often come after our greatest disappointments. (Henry Ward Beecher)
Disappointment, like failure, helps us become stronger and opens a new horizon for us to succeed.
59. We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. (Martin Luther King)
This great activist for the rights of African Americans in the United States had to face multiple disappointments throughout his life, but he always knew how to look forward.
60. Betrayal is never easy to handle, and there is no right way to accept it. (Christine Feehan)
When you are not used to betrayal, it can be a truly unpleasant experience.
61. Betrayals leave big scars on the soul and time cannot always heal them.
Those who have experienced it know that betrayal is one of the most terrible episodes that one can experience.
62. If they betray you, be disappointed. Don’t look for excuses to blame yourself for what they did to you.
We should never blame ourselves for the year that others inflict on us.
63. Do not hate the traitor, see him as the loser of one of the most beautiful faculties that the human race possesses: loyalty.
Whoever has lost loyalty, has lost everything in life.
64. If a betrayal is forgiven a second time, the fault is yours and not his.
A piece of advice that we must always keep in mind when someone betrays us.
65. After a betrayal, do not lose your naivety; Remember that real people still exist.
Faith in humanity must never be lost.
66. Most betrayals are the product of envy.
Something we must remember whenever someone betrays us.
67. A friend’s betrayals are always premeditated.
A truly discouraging phrase that puts us on alert of any possible betrayal.
68. Stab the body and it will heal, but stab the heart and the wound will last a lifetime. (Mineko Iwasaki)
Emotional wounds hurt much more than any physical abuse.
69. Honey, it’s neither anger nor resentment. It’s disappointment.
The disappointment caused by a betrayal of someone we love is remembered for a lifetime.
70. Trust is gained with a thousand actions but lost with just one.
Trust is one of the hardest qualities to gain and easiest to lose.
71. No wise man thought that a traitor could be trusted. (Cicero)
No one in their right mind would ever trust a traitor.
72. You don’t fight with the Judas… they hang themselves.
Very accurate advice about traitors, which alludes to a biblical episode.
73. It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. (William Blade)
A truly accurate phrase about the pain caused by a friend’s betrayal.
74. A friend’s silence is almost always equivalent to betrayal. (William Hazlitt)
A rather drastic phrase that is often true.
75. It is more embarrassing to distrust your friends than to be deceived by them. (Confucius)
A phrase uttered more than 2000 years ago that is still completely valid.
76. If your best friend sticks a handkerchief in your back… Be wary of his friendship. (Roberto Fontanarrosa)
A phrase that encourages us to be cautious of friends who can betray us.
77. That you will never return, that you never loved me, I forgot again, that only I loved you (Maná)
Few betrayals are more painful than those of those we have loved.
78. Men cheat more than women; women, better. (Joaquín Sabina)
A humorous phrase from this great Spanish singer-songwriter that can resemble reality in a certain sense.
79. Everything dies when trust is betrayed.
No friendship worth its salt or any love can survive if there is no trust.
80. Without trust even the greatest love dies.
Trust is one of the fundamental pillars of true love.
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