40 phrases of betrayal (in a friendship or in a couple).

Reflections necessary to face a deception of any kind.

When honesty is conspicuous by its absence, some people take the liberty to lie and cheat, either from behind or directly to the face.

Betrayal occurs when someone we thought we could trust plays a dirty trick on usWe can also be betrayed by someone we thought we trusted, talking badly about us or failing to fulfill a commitment they had made. Betrayal can cause a lot of discomfort and sadness, and many individuals place all their trust in that person, whether a friend or a boyfriend or girlfriend, and get a tremendous disappointment.

Famous phrases about betrayal of partner and friendship

Friendship can break into a thousand pieces when a betrayal occurs. Often, betrayals are related to infidelity and disloyalty. When a betrayal occurs in the yes of an engaged 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 will discover the most remembered and that best illustrate this unpleasant feeling of having been deceived.

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1. No matter how faithful one wants to be, one never fails to betray the uniqueness of the other to whom one is addressing. (Jacques Derrida)

A famous quote from the French philosopher that opens our point of view.

2. He who is inclined to be a traitor, late will return in his agreement. (Tirso de Molina)

The Spanish writer leaves us this phrase to reflect.

3. In the psychological analysis of the great betrayals you will always find Judas Iscariot's mind. (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 speaks about how traitors sell themselves to the powerful for moral and material misery.

5. All those who are afraid or all those who are thinking of betraying in some way are moderates. (Ernesto Che Guevara)

According to the Argentine Marxist leader, only in radicalism is found the firmness of convictions.

6. If you complain that I betray you, find me enemies whom I can hate. (Pierre Corneille)

The French poet makes us reflect on the loss of confidence 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 the sons of Brutus, will preserve his work only for a short time. (Niccolo Machiavelli)

If you want to guarantee that you will not be betrayed, nip any suspicious element in the bud.

8. There are daggers in men's smiles; the nearer they are, the bloodier. (William Shakespeare)

Trust no one but yourself.

9. Those who knowingly let the king err, deserve punishment as traitors. (Alfonso X the Wise)

If you have people around you who keep quiet when they should be warning you, think about changing your friends.

10. We laugh at honor and then we are surprised to find traitors among us. (Clive Lewis)

To be honorable we must first give it the importance it deserves.

11. You can betray me once. Only once. (Isaac Hayes)

Never again let them take advantage of your trust.

12. Just the thought of betraying is already a consummate betrayal. (Cesare Cantu)

The simple fact of thinking about 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).

On infidelity in courtship.

14. More betrayals are committed out of weakness than out of a firm purpose to betray. (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 treason is the rule. (Mario Vargas Llosa)

The writer complains of living in an age plagued by imposture.

16. Infidelity is like being in a partnership with someone and stealing money from the till. (Fernando Sabino)

About the meanness of cheating on someone.

17. Jealousy can forgive everything except the suspicion of infidelity. (Augusto Roa)

Couple problems are accentuated when jealousy intervenes in the relationship.

18. Infidelity is cheating. It is breaking an affective-sexual pact 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 is where reason comes in, I decide to be faithful with self-control and avoidance at the same time. If I need to have many people besides my partner, then I should look for a partner who thinks like 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 it should never look up from the ground. (Facundo Cabral)

A radical vision of the Argentine writer.

20. The last temptation is the greatest treason: to yield to duty or to wrong reason. (T.S. Eliot)

The wear and tear produced by various temptations can lead us to fall into incorrect attitudes.

21. I love treason, but I hate the traitor. (Julius Caesar)

An original reflection of the Roman emperor.

22. We must distrust one another. It is our only defense against treachery. (Tennessee Williams)

A sad but very true sentence. Only our insight can keep us from being betrayed.

23. A traitor can betray himself and unwittingly do good. (JRR Tolkien)

A paradox from the hand of the creator of The Lord of the Rings.

24. A man can have no worse fate than to be surrounded by treacherous souls. (William Burroughs)

If you have had to live close to many people who are not trustworthy, protect yourself and protect yourself.

With the ashes of the traitors we will build the Homeland of the humble. (Eva Perón)

Argentine politics has left us an ambitious phrase for the future.

26. A single betrayal is enough to begin to distrust even the most loyal. (Fred Rogers)

It is better 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 of authoritarian tendencies.

30. For every reason to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. (Bo Bennett)

An aphorism to reject deceit and betrayal.

31. Someone who lies about the little things will also lie about the big things. (Terry McAuliffe)

A warning about the tendency to lie.

32. Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my loneliness and killed it. (Robinson Jeffers)

Imagination breaks schemes and goes beyond consensus, so in a way it betrays.

33. Disunion 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 the emotional impact of a betrayal.

35. A lie can go around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes. (Charles Spurgeon)

A sad fact about the rapidity with which falsehoods spread.

36. He who today buys you with flattery, tomorrow will sell you with his treachery. (Anonymous)

A double-sided coin in the world of interest-based relationships.

37. Betrayal is a stain that never gets old. (Elena Anaya)

About the mark left by betrayal.

38. Cynicism is intellectual treason. (Norman Cousins)

On the way of thinking proper to cynics and their relation to truth.

39. Lack of gratitude is a betrayal before humanity. (James Thompson)

We must be grateful for the progress that has taken place in the past.

40. The lovesick, the betrayed and the jealous have the same smell. (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette)

About the attitude and the way of thinking and feeling of three apparently different profiles.