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See, being a person is kind of random and arbitrary business. You may have noticed that. And you need to believe in something to keep it from being too random and arbitrary to handle. Some people take religion, or success, or patriotism, or family, but for a lot of guys those things don't work. A guy like me. I don't have religion or family that sort of thing. So you accept some system of order, and you stick to it.
— Robert B. Parker
Damn the wars but bless the soldier.
— T.L. Moffitt
The only chains you should wear in life are the chains of commitment.
— Shannon L. Alder
There is another life both for you and for me,’ said I. ‘If it be the will of God that we should sow in tears now, it is only that we may reap in joy hereafter. It is His will that we should not injure others by the gratification of our own earthly passions; and you have a mother, and sisters, and friends who would be seriously injured by your disgrace; and I, too, have friends, whose peace of mind shall never be sacrificed to my enjoyment, or yours either, with my consent; and if I were alone in the world, I have still my God and my religion, and I would sooner die than disgrace my calling and break my faith with heaven to obtain a few brief years of false and fleeting happiness—happiness sure to end in misery even here—for myself or any other!
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Since childhood at my mother's knee, I have believed in honor, ethics and right living as its own reward. I find a very small minority who agree with me on that premise.
— Harry Truman
Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of today.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
With no doubt Al Hussain was one of the greatest rebels, for correcting the path of rulers who deviated from the right path. He, by his stance honorably acquired martyrdom martyrdom that free people wish to acquire.
— Leo Tolstoy
Honor is kind of what you get when you weaponize manners
— Jasper Fforde
Those who boast about honor shouldn't lack in it.
— Drake R. Todd, The Killing Trial
I know precisely what honor is, Heracles. Honor is the artifice kings sell the peasants’ sons so that they may fight and die without pay. Honor is what drives a peaceful man to bloody vengeance. Honor is what drove the Celts to behead the children of the Apache Courts.
— Bes
First and foremost, they had the curses of the country: and Sir Murtagh Rackrent, the new heir, in the next place, on account of this affront to the body, refused to pay a shilling of the debts, in which he was countenanced by all the best gentlemen of property, and others of his acquaintance; Sir Murtagh alleging in all companies that he all along meant to pay his father's debts of honour, but the moment the law was taken of him, there was an end of honour to be sure. It was whispered (but none but the enemies of the family believe it) that this was all a sham seizure to get quit of the debts which he had bound himself to pay in honour.
— Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent
I know precisely what honor is, Heracles. Honor is the artifice kings sell the peasants’ sons so that they may fight and die without pay. Honor is what drives a peaceful man to bloody vengeance. Honor is what drove the Celts to behead the children of the Apache Courts.- (The Egyptian God) Bes
— Jonathan Maas, City of Gods: Hellenica
After breakfast, determined to pass as little of the day as possible in company with Lady Lowborough, I quietly stole away from the company and retired to the library. Mr. Hargrave followed me thither, under pretence of coming for a book; and first, turning to the shelves, he selected a volume, and then quietly, but by no means timidly, approaching me, he stood beside me, resting his hand on the back of my chair, and said softly, ‘And so you consider yourself free at last?’‘Yes,’ said I, without moving, or raising my eyes from my book, ‘free to do anything but offend God and my conscience.
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
We put on our best clothes and die like heroes.
— Leigh Bardugo
Do not quarrel or restlessly seek for more knowledge, until you have given proper honor to what you already know.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
... we honor the people we lost by loving again.
— Marie Force, Meant for Love
There are so many other fun ways to dishonor the family name that buying girls’ underwear shouldn’t be one of them.
— Rin Chupeco, The Girl from the Well
We care about the dead. We try with our lives to honor theirs. That’s how we make our lives meaningful, and how we make their lives meaningful, too.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
We fear God by honoring, reverencing, and cherishing Him. His greatness and majesty reduce us to an overpowering sense of awe that is not focused only on His wrath and judgment but also on His transcendent glory , which is like nothing else we can confront in this world. It leaves us all but speechless.
— David Jeremiah, What Are You Afraid Of?
It ain't life that left you no choice, its honor!
— Ryk Brown, Rise of the Corinari
You should never trust a liar so you should never trust a man of honor. Those two are the worst of mankind.
— Alice Hoffman, Property Of
The most honorable part of a network are the hubs, not the nodes that lead to nowhere.
— Ryan Lilly, #Networking is people looking for people looking for people
It is better to lack the semblance of honor but possess it than to possess the semblance and lack the honor.
— Lynn Flewelling, Traitor's Moon
It is the dirt within men’s hearts that is most offensive
—  the filth you cannot see.
Sometimes we have to meet people where they are, Ollie. Honor their desires, regardless of out own.
— Tess Hilmo, With a Name like Love
Flirt with him if you want, Honor, but you're mine.
— Nalini Singh, Archangel's Blade
In a world filled with flaky people, those that honor commitments and do what they say STAND-OUT. Integrity is currency.
— Dr. Matthew Loop
All my life, he said, I been witness to people showin up where they was supposed to be at various times after they'd said they'd be there. I never heard one yet that didnt have a reason for it.Yessir.But there aint but one reason.Yessir.You know what it is?No sir.It's that their word's no good. That's the only reason there ever was or ever will be.
— Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing
Maybe in death you’ll understand that love, and all other needs take a backseat when the one thing you want, stands against all that you swear to protect.
— Charles   Lee, The Way To Dawn
An oath is a frightening thing when you are prepared to keep it, and I felt it tightening around my soul even as I gave my pledge.
— Rob S. Rice, The Chronicles of Loquacious, Centaur, of Rhodes
Ours is a world controlled by the warrior and the sword.
— Jayne Castel, Dark Under the Cover of Night
You may love, honor, and care for her, but someone else is doing what she needs.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Respect earned through fear instead of deeds, was not truly respect.
— Tamara Rose Blodgett, The Reflective
Vanity Fair--Vanity Fair! Here was a man, who could not spell, and did not care to read--who had the habits and the cunning of a boor: whose aim in life was pettifogging: who never had a taste, or emotion, or enjoyment, but what was sordid and foul; and yet he had rank, and honours, and power, somehow: and was a dignitary of the land, and a pillar of the state. He was high sheriff, and rode in a golden coach. Great ministers and statesmen courted him; and in Vanity Fair he had a higher place than the most brilliant genius or spotless virtue.
— William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
In honoring the Wright Brothers, it is customary and proper to recognize their contribution to scientific progress. But I believe it is equally important to emphasize the qualities in their pioneering life and the character in man that such a life produced. The Wright Brothers balanced success with modesty, science with simplicity. At Kitty Hawk their intellects and senses worked in mutual support. They represented man in balance, and from that balance came wings to lift a world.
— Charles A. Lindbergh
Just because we can doesn't mean we should.
— Chris Vonada, All Sorts And Conditions Of People
I never expect appreciation. I always set a deadline for the things I have to do to be a successful person, when I complete them, I give myself a piece of candy, a glass of tea and some free time to enjoy- that is how I honor my hardworking and appreciate my struggles.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Mine honor is my life; both grow in one.Take honor from me, and my life is done.
— William Shakespeare, Richard II
Dmitri clearly gives good . . . blood.
— Nalini Singh, Archangel's Legion
The strongest soldier cannot balance long upon the blade that does divide his honor and his heart, and whatever way he falls, the cut will kill him.
— Susanna Kearsley, The Firebird
Act well your part,there all the honor lies.
— Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn.
— Osamu Dazai, Blue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy
There is no honor in seeking praise for doing that which is expected of you.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he made so many fundamental contributions to science, but because he found an imperfection in the fundamental contribution of Isaac Newton.
— Carl Sagan
Exactly. Since it is morally justifiable, I have only to consider the question of personal risk. Surely a gentleman should not lay much stress upon this, when a lady is in most desperate need of his help?
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes
[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.
— Georges Cuvier
Once again discovered: Do what you do because you enjoy. If expect others to give credit or honor your work, you are due for disappointment
— Phillip Gary Smith, HARMONIZING: Keys to Living in the Song of Life
Duty and honor are oft enough realm only for those with security to afford them.
— Chris Galford, At Faith's End
The man attempted to salute and Renius forced himself to smile, biting back his temper at the sloppy manners. He watched the fat figure run away into the buildings and wiped the first beads of sweat from his brow. Strange that such men as that should understand loyalty where so many others threw it aside at the first hint of freedom.
— Conn Iggulden, The Gates of Rome
In the vestibule of the Manchester Town Hall are placed two life-sized marble statues facing each other. One of these is that of John Dalton ... the other that of James Prescott Joule. ... Thus the honour is done to Manchester's two greatest sons—to Dalton, the founder of modern Chemistry and of the atomic theory, and the laws of chemical-combining proportions; to Joule, the founder of modern physics and the discoverer of the Law of Conservation of Energy.One gave to the world the final proof ... that in every kind of chemical change no loss of matter occurs; the other proved that in all the varied modes of physical change, no loss of energy takes place.
— Henry Enfield Roscoe
She very much feared that if she stayed with Maximus, this awful taint – this terribly wrong act – would, day by day, year by year, wear at her until she was no more than a ghost of her former self. She saw need when she looked into his eyes, but was there any love as well? Had she discarded Penelope’s friendship for a man who didn’t, in the end, truly care fo
— Elizabeth Hoyt, Duke of Midnight
Let us do those things that our heart is asking us to do and from this day forth allow all souls that leave our presence feeling honored and deeply loved.
— Molly Friedenfeld
Central to Möser's view of the human world was "honor," a notion that was as important to corporatist society as the notion of dignity would be for the more individualistic society that succeeded it. In Möser's view, a person acquired his identity from his place in the institutional structure of society, a society in which economic, social, and political institutions were not distinguished from one another. His status (as a guildsman, noble landowner, serf, or independent peasant cottager) determined not only how he earned his living, but his sense of who he was, of what his duties and obligations were, of those to whom he ought to defer and those who ought to defer to him. (In the language of modern sociology, Möser's society was one in which almost all of the individual's roles derived from a single status.) Who one was was largely a continuation of what one's forebears had been. For Möser the real self was the socially encumbered self, the self based on status, on historical and regional particularity, and on property. It was a self whose prime virtue was honor. Status and the honor that attached to it were inherited, although they could be lost if one failed to live up to the duties of one's rank.
— Jerry Z. Muller, The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought
GETTING KILLED BY TARTARUS didn’t seem like much of an honor. As Annabeth stared up at his dark whirlpool face, she decided she’d rather die in some less memorable way—maybe falling down the stairs, or going peacefully in her sleep at age eighty, after a nice quiet life with Percy. Yes, that sounded good.
— Rick Riordan
Now I remembered a captain's honor and his only duty: to bring his crew back alive.
— Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned
Nor when love is of this disinterested sort is there any disgrace in being deceived, but in every other case there is equal disgrace in being or not being deceived. For he who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable. And on the same principle he who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler.
— Plato, The Symposium
...Feel no fear before the multitude of men, do not run in panic,but let each man bear his shield straight toward the fore-fighters,regarding his own life as hateful and holding the dark spirits of death as dear as the radiance of the sun.
— Tyrtaeus, Spartan Lessons; Or, the Praise of Valour; In the Verses of Tyrtaeus; An Ancient Athenian Poet, ...
You will stay and help defend our cave against all comers, protect those weaker than yourself and honor our code. Always use the sword to stand for good and right, never do a thing you would be ashamed of, and never let your heart rule your mind ... And never let another creature take this sword from you, not as long as you live. When the time comes, pass it on to another, maybe your own son. You will know instinctively if he is a warrior. If not, hide the sword where only a true warrior who is brave of heart would dare to go and find it. Swear this to me, Martin.
— Brian Jacques, The Legend of Luke
O Stranger, send the news home to the people of Sparta that here weAre laid to rest: the commands they gave us have been obeyed.Ὦ ξεῖν', ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδεκείμεθα, τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι.[Epitaph of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae]
— Simonides
Virtue is the fount whence honor springs.
— Christopher Marlowe
Columbus gave Europe a New World; [Alexander von] Humboldt made it known in its physical, material, intellectual, and moral aspects.
— José Cipriano de la Luz y Caballero
Thy life is safe while any god saves mine.
— Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
When you make a deal you stick to it. Rock-hard rule. You don't renege, you don't sell out. You hold up your end and expect the other party to do the same. If the other party doesn't, you're entitled to deal with every man of it as you see fit in order to set things right. No--you're more than entitled. You're obligated. Or the rule would mean nothing.
— James Carlos Blake, The Rules of Wolfe
The inimitable stories of Tong-King never have any real ending, and this one, being in his most elevated style, has even less end than most of them. But the whole narrative is permeated with the odour of joss-sticks and honourable high-mindedness, and the two characters are both of noble birth.
— Ernest Bramah, Wallet of Kai Lung
The nation that honors a dancer more than a scholar is no more a nation.
— M.F. Moonzajer
[Alexander von Humboldt was the] greatest scientific traveller who ever lived.
— Charles Darwin
The statesman received us with that old-fashioned courtesy for which he is remarkable, and seated us on the two luxuriant lounges on either side of the fireplace. Standing on the rug between us, with his slight, tall figure, his sharp features, thoughtful face, and curling hair prematurely tinged with gray, he seemed to represent that not too common type, a nobleman who is in truth noble.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
This man [Alexander von Humboldt] is as knowledgeable as a whole academy.
— Claude Louis Berthollet
[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I consider him [Alexander von Humboldt] the most important scientist whom I have met.
— Thomas Jefferson
If you want to know if someone is lying to you, start by living a truthful life. Once you live in the truth, you will not be easily deceived.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
If we want to grow, the way to break a pattern of negativity is to face anything negative with love.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
where the Army we loved sold us out for careerist brass, a war-porn-fixated media and military-industrial-complex corporate greed; where the only honor and integrity seemed to exist among the troops on the line.
— Luis Carlos Montalván, Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him
We have soul contracts with every person in our lives to live in the vibration of truth.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
You deal with me very frankly, and I thank you for it,' said I. 'I will try on my side to be no less honest. I believe these deep duties may lie upon your lordship; I believe you may have laid them on your conscience when you took the oaths of the high office which you hold. But for me, who am just a plain man--or scarce a man yet--the plain duties must suffice. I can think but of two things, of a poor soul in the immediate and unjust danger of a shameful death, and of the cries and tears of his wife that still tingle in my head. I cannot see beyond, my lord. It's the way I am made. If the country has to fall, it has to fall. And I pray God, if this is wilful blindness, that He may enlighten me before too late.
— Robert Louis Stevenson, David Balfour: Being Memoirs of the Further Adventures of David Balfour at Home and Abroad
Fear has no place in the lives of those who choose to be victorious.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
Do I raise the dead when I put him behind bars? Then what'll I do it for? We used to shoot a man who acted like a dog, but honor was real there, you were protecting something. But here? This is the land of the great big dogs, you don't love a man here, you eat him!
— Arthur Miller, All My Sons
When truthful knowledge is dispensed, soul growth is accomplished every time, for all parties involved, in every situation.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
Pure truth is always present, but it is each soul’s choice to decide when he or she wants it to be revealed.
— Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths
Shocked at this rebuke, Sarah took a step backward. “But I…I am the daughter of a marquess. I cannot marry either—”“You are new here, so I will explain. In this land, nobility comes not from one’s fathers or a title or from the land one owns, but from one’s actions.” His voice was hard-edged, and his words seemed harsh to her. “The MacKinnon brothers are the highest nobility to those who live on the frontier—true warriors, men who know how to fight and survive, men who put the lives of others before their own. Your family’s wealth, your title, your virtue—they mean nothing out here. They won’t fill your belly, and they won’t keep you alive. What matters most right now is your survival.
— Pamela Clare, Defiant
Honor bright! Fair play is a jewel!
— E.D.E.N. Southworth, Capitola's Peril
Rose, I cheat at cards and buy liquor for minors. But I would never, ever force you into something you don't want.
— Richelle Mead, Spirit Bound
What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no.
— William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1
Morality and honor are not to be confused. "The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
— H.L. Mencken
No man of honor avoided what needed to be done, simply because it might not proceed in his favor.
— Claire Delacroix, The Beauty Bride
This is a grave. There is no honor here in broken tools and old bones, only in the deeds of our children.
— Mike Mignola, Hellboy, Vol. 6: Strange Places
Great men speak secrets about themselves with nods and gestures, walking away from jokes about women rather than condemn the jokester; if with a woman, the turning of their head during a nude scene in a movie speaking volumes about their character without ever saying a word. It is a language foreign to women, but those that take the time to learn it find themselves knowing more about their man than by any other means.
— Lee  Goff, A Rage Like Thunder
What were they thinking?' we ask about our ancestors, but we know that, a century hence, our descendents will ask the same thing about us. Who knows what will strike them as strangest? The United States incarcerates 1 percent of its population and subjects many thousands of inmates to years of solitary confinement. In Saudi Arabia, women are forbidden to drive. There are countries today in which homosexuality is punishable by life in prison or by death. Then there's the sequestered reality of factory farming, in which hundreds of millions of mammals, and billions of birds, live a squalid brief existence. Or the toleration of extreme poverty, inside and outside the developed world. One day, people will find themselves thinking not just that an old practice was wrong and a new one right but that there was something shameful in the old ways. In the course of the transition, many will change what they do because they are shamed out of an old way of doing things. So it is perhaps not too much to hope that if we can find the proper place for honor now, we can make the world better.
— Kwame Anthony Appiah
What more you expect from a nation that honors a barbarian.
— M.F. Moonzajer
There’s more to being a warrior than killing. A true warrior — the best warrior — isn’t cruel or mean. He doesn’t claw an enemy who can’t fight back. Where’s the honor in that?
— Erin Hunter, Forest of Secrets
Enemies,' the wizard said, 'are the price of honour.
— Terry Goodkind, Debt of Bones
One man in a thousand, Solomon says.Will stick more close than a brother.And it's worth while seeking him half your daysIf you find him before the other.---The Thousandth Man
— Rudyard Kipling
When it comes to the education of our young, this privilege should only be given to those whose visions are solely in the uplifting benefit of the child. There is no room for the ego in the education of children! Children should not be looked after, nor educated, by those who have not made a sacrifice within their hearts, laying down their own personal agenda and dreams, for the total ascension of the child. Even if you are to educate the children simply sitting under a tree; if you have the vision and the heart of a sage, those children will grow to be mighty men and women under your watch! And even if you wine and dine the children, putting them up in a palace; if you do not have the vision and the selfless heart of a sage, all you do is in utter vanity!
— C. JoyBell C.
Honor is the best part of you, Will Blackshear. And I don't make that pronoucement lightly. No woman could, who's ever seen you naked.
— Cecilia Grant
Desperaux," she said. He saw his name on her lips."I honor you," whispered Desperaux. "I honor you.
— Kate DiCamillo, The Tale of Despereaux
To show his nervousness was not shameful
—  only to admit it.
The essence of honor lay in the moment of combat between equals.
— Dan Simmons, Hyperion
Shortly after you left the room, Bushell came over and spoke to your father. I was not near enough to hear what he said, but Maria Lucas told me afterwards that he had been -' (she smiled) 'amazingly impertinent.''Peter actually spoke to Papa?''He did. According to Maria, he had the impudence to criticise Mr Bennet for his treatment of you. I must say it gives me the most favourable idea of his character.
— Jennifer Paynter, Mary Bennet
Even in good families a bad apple can begin an avalanche of troubles,' Dutch said as he sat back in his well-seasoned armchair, lighting his curved rustic pipe. From Book I, In Blood There is No Honor
— Judith-Victoria Douglas, Painted Tree: Two Novellas
I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
— Octavia E. Butler
Never confuse honor with stupidity!
— R.A. Salvatore, The Crystal Shard
There was no honor in war, less in killing, and none in dying. But there was true dignity in how men comported themselves in battle. And there was always honor to be found in standing for a just cause and defending the defenseless.
— Michael Scott, The Enchantress
For now, Lady Queen," he said, "allow us to continue to obey you. But give us honorable instructions, Lady Queen," he said, turning a flushed face to hers. "Ask us to do honorable things, so that we may have the honor of obeying you.
— Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue
You are new here, so I will explain. In this land, nobility comes not from one’s fathers or a title or from the land one owns, but from one’s actions.” His voice was hard-edged, and his words seemed harsh to her. “The MacKinnon brothers are the highest nobility to those who live on the frontier—true warriors, men who know how to fight and survive, men who put the lives of others before their own. Your family’s wealth, your title, your virtue—they mean nothing out here. They won’t fill your belly, and they won’t keep you alive. What matters most right now is your survival. (Joseph to Lady Sarah)
— Pamela Clare, Defiant
They said i run away coz i cant face situatonsI run away coz i dont want to get people seriously harmed or killed.Stop judging peoples, no one needs your cocksucking opinions.
— Jaiendra Puri
When you do something with all your heart and good intentions the small life turns magical.
— Bella Meraki, To Be Simple
To make love last, you've got to treat it like the ultimate poker hand; you've got to go all in.
— Max Hawthorne
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
— William Blake
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
If you're betrayed, release disappointment at once.By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
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, Ninth Grade Slays
He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it.
— Anaïs Nin
Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.
— Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.
— Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
Her only way home was to betray her friend.
— Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
Betrayal is never easy to handle and there is no right way to accept it.
— Christine Feehan, Dark Demon
I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
— Blaise Pascal
He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
So this was betrayal. It was like being left alone in the desert at dusk without water or warmth. It left your mouth dry and will broken. It sapped your tears and made you hollow.
— Anna Godbersen, Rumors
Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.
— George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.
— John le Carré, The Looking Glass War
Your penis betrayed you, son. Made you think stupid. It won't be the last time that happens.
— Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says
And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?
— Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.
— George R.R. Martin
As they spoke, the only thing I could think about was that scene from Julius Caesar where Brutus stabs him in the back. Et tu, Eric?
— Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
And you know, I agree to everything:I will condemn, I will forget, I will give comfort to the enemy,Darkness will be light and sin lovely.
— Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
She would see it as betrayal. Nothing more. Nothing less.
— Samantha Young, Blood Will Tell
September had never been betrayed before. She did not even know what to call the feeling in her chest, so bitter and sour. Poor child. There is always a first time, and it is never the last time.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
I think there are two different oceans - the one that plays with you in the summer, and the one that gets so mad in the winter.
— Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
I would rather my enemy's sword pierce my heart then my friend's dagger stab me in the back." Faustus - Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire
— Michele Bardsley
Love does not last forever, then?""He asked me the same thing this morning," she said. "No, it does not - not love that has been betrayed. One realizes that one has loved a mirage, someone who never really existed. Not that love dies immediately or soon, even then. But it does die and cannot be revived.
— Mary Balogh, Simply Perfect
Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see
— William Shakespeare, Macbeth
We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise.In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back.
— Yukio Mishima, Thirst for Love
To my dismay, he recovers quickly and smoothes his hair. "So you choose him?"That's all this ever was. Jealously. Rivalry. All so shadow could defeat the flame.I have to throw my head back and laugh, feeling the eyes of the brothers on me. "Cal betrayed me, and I betrayed him. And you betrayed both of us, in a thousand different ways." The words are heavy as stone but right. So right. "I choose no one.
— Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen
The guilt of not telling Frankie about Matt and me is overwhelming, but it's a pale second to the violation I feel that she read my most private, raw thoughts and destroyed them. She broke into my carefully guarded heart, stole the only remaining connection I had to Matt, and turned it into a monstrosity.
— Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer
He felt at once betrayed and betrayer, deceived and deceiver. He was a criminal forced into crime, an unwilling whore.
— Peter Benchley, Jaws
Betrayal is beautiful.
— Jean Genet, The Thief's Journal
Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.
— Marisha Pessl, Night Film
I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant business partner. I wonder if I hurt him. If he can rationalize what I did to him, it’s easy to imagine how he rationalized what he did to me.
— Holly Black, Red Glove
Dave, would you please tell your wife she can relax. She’s got the job. It isn’t necessary for her to keep pointing out our short-comings just so you can feel better about leaving us.
— Delora Dennis, Same Old Truths
Tears welled in Penelope's eyes, making the blue even darker. Then she reeled back and slapped him hard enough that his cheek stung."That is for what you did to me. Not in the dark, Jeremy. Not as the faceless lover. Not even for today when you made love to me... or perhaps we should call it 'fucking', since there was nothing loving about it, only manipulation". Her voice shook as hard as her hands as she turned on her heel and headed for the door. "It's for betraying my friendship".
— Jess Michaels, Something Reckless
O cousin Kate, my love was true,Your love was writ in sand:If he had fooled not me but you,If you had stood where i stand,He'd not have won me with his love,Nor bought me with his land;I would have spit into his faceAnd not have taken his hand.Yet I have a gift you have not got,And seem not like to get:For all your clothes and wedding-ringI've little doubt you fret.My fair-haired son, my shame, my pride,Cling closer, closer yet:Your father would give lands for oneto wear his coronet
— Christina Rossetti
And what was to become of what he had taken from her? He had dashed her heart to the ground and danced on it with combat boots. Did he sit in that seditious palace day after day and not even bother to scrape it off of his soles with a passing thought of her?
— V.S. Carnes
While stabbing someones back, you recklessly expose your own.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
What is it that makes you cry? It is only your attachments. What is it that you miss when it is lost? It is the object of your attachment. Ponder over this. Find out what it is that grips your very life, without which you feel miserable and destitute; that is the center of your attachment. Here is what you should do: make an effort to find out what things it would hurt you to lose. Then, before they are lost, open your hands little by little, relax your grip on them. This is the method for conquering attachment. There is bound to be pain, but you must bear it; this is your penance. It is not necessary to renounce anything. It is not that you should leave your wife and run away to the Himalayas. Remain there, where you are, but gradually stop depending on her. There is no need to cause any pain; your wife need not even know it. There is no need to tell her.Seek out the attachments. Try gradually to live without the things that you now think you cannot live without. Create such a state within yourself that if and when these things are lost, there is not the slightest tremor within you. Then you will have attained victory over these attachments. This can be possible. It has been possible. And if it has happened to even one, it can happen to all.
— Osho, Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery
After more than a thousand years," he continued, "an enemy finally broke through. Not because of superior firepower. Not because the Manchus were better fighters or strategists. They weren't. The Manchus breached the Great Wall and took Beijing because someone opened a gate. From the inside. As simple as that. A general, a traitor, let them in and an empire fell.
— Louise Penny, A Great Reckoning
The most frightening blazing anger was alive in her now. It was not only Elizabeth that she could have killed but Ross. She could have thrown every piece of crockery at him, and knives and forks too. Indeed she could have attacked him knife in hand. Fundamentally there was nothing meek or mild about her. She was a fighter, and it showed now.
— Winston Graham, Warleggan
You can be found better man then me.But where you will found Toy like me with whom you can play a lot in many ways and who just keep simple with out hurt you.
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
money make the world and your family turn
— Omar Hickman
The Knife of betrayal tease from back and this Que prick every sec deep in heart why you get this pain from that person whom you love and intention to love every sec as crazy.when did not get Ans its create anger inside for self.And no one can't understand how this anger kills every day thousand time
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
Give love and Get BetrayalThis is true same as much as Death is true
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
For you it may be enjoyable to betraying but do you know you are killing one innocent person who trusted on you.So keep it mind your enjoy is not free.Someone paid for your fun by His/Her life
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
Sometimes our enemies are disguise as family and friends. You must forgive yourself for having chosen to trust those people who don't care about your life and seek nothing but failure for you. Stop wasting your precious time in trying to make those people see you, understand you, respect you, value you and love you because in the end it all becomes a pointless negative fight for validation that will drain your happiness. Enjoy life by surrounding yourself with those who inspire you and truly demonstrate their love for you. It gets complicated at times but eventually, you will know your worth & leave the trash behind.
— Jesus Apolinaris
No one knows how strong they are until they have to be.
— Marian Keyes, Watermelon
I don’t even care enough to set the record straight. It was hilarious, what a huge liar she was. She actually believed her own bullshit.
— Jenny Han Siobhan Vivian
And now?" came my dad's voice. "Now who am I?" "The man who chose his girlfriend over his family." I turned and looked at my father. "Someone whose words I don't believe.
— Jenny B. Jones, I'll Be Yours
Kill me with love but dont love me with lie
— pooja bagul
What a mad world is a world in which nоbody deserves to be loved.
— Mario Fingarov
He's a waiter, not a Mafia stooge, so what's he going to do? Blac pepper them to death? Compliment them into a coma? Run them over with the dessert trolley?
— Marian Keyes, Watermelon
Because you promised? But you've promised me load of things. Like to cherish me and to love till death do us part.
— Marian Keyes, Watermelon
He didn't even attempt to smile and I knew then that I had lost him.
— Marian Keyes, Watermelon
If he says he doesn't love you anymore and does love this other woman, you've got to accept it. Maybe he will come back, maybe he won't, but either way, you've got to live through this.
— Marian Keyes, Watermelon
As they say in New York, Get over it and, if you can't get over it, Get over talking about it.
— Marian Keyes, Watermelon
If it was that beautiful, why did I leave you
— Marian Keyes, Watermelon
Don't make the mistake of letting pride get in the way of forgiveness. You still love him. He still loves you. Don't throw it all away just because your feelings are hurt.
— Marian Keyes, Watermelon
MOST PEOPLE think acting is make-believe. Like it’s a big game where people put on costumes and feign kisses or stab wounds and then pretend to gasp and die. They think it’s a show. They don’t understand that acting is becoming someone else, changing your thoughts and needs until you don’t remember your own anymore. You let the other person invade everything you are and then you turn yourself inside out, spilling their identity onto the stage like a kind of bloodletting.
— Mindy Mejia, Everything You Want Me to Be
The horrible ugliness of this exposure of a sick and guilty heart to the very eye that would gloat over it!
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
I want to apologize to you,” she says calmly.“Oh yeah? For what?” I don’t have time for this. We don’t have time for this. I push away thoughts of what will happen to Hana even if I manage to escape. She’ll be here, in the house . . .My stomach is clenching and unclenching. I’m worried the bread will come straight back up. I have to stay focused. What happens to Hana isn’t my concern, and it isn’t my fault, either.“For telling the regulators about 37 Brooks,” she says. “For telling them about you and Alex.”Just like that, my brain powers down. “What?"“I told them.” She lets out a tiny exhalation, as though saying the words has given her relief. “I’m sorry. I was jealous.”I can’t speak. I’m swimming through a fog. “Jealous?” I manage to spit out.“I—I wanted what you had with Alex. I was confused. I didn’t understand what I was doing.” She shakes her head again.I have a swinging, seasick feeling. It doesn’t make any sense. Hana—golden girl Hana, my best friend, fearless and reckless. I trusted her. I loved her. “You were my best friend.”“I know.” Again she looks troubled, as though trying to recall the meaning of the words.“You had everything.” I can’t stop my voice from rising. The anger is vibrating, ripping through me like a live current. “Perfect life. Perfect grades. Everything.” I gesture to the spotless kitchen, to the sunshine pouring over the marble counters like drizzled butter. “I had nothing. He was my one thing. My only—” The sickness surges up and I take a step forward, clenching my fists, blind with rage. “Why couldn’t you let me have it? Why did you have to take it? Why did you always take everything?
— Lauren Oliver, Requiem
The how of any betrayal was the hardest part to justify. How the lies can be assembled and stacked and maintained until the truth was completely hidden behind them.
— Brit Bennett, The Mothers
If I had wanted to be a pawn in a game, I would have taken up chess...
— Virginia Alison
My body covered with flames of betrayal and my eyes filled with tears of pain, I do not feel good.
— Tanmaya Guru
Because the greater the love, the more devastating the sense of betrayal.
— Jill Mansell, Take a Chance on Me
But not everyone you love is a forever. Sometimes you can love someone for a reason, and for a time, and although you never stop loving them, no matter how much they may betray you, you move on, because they aren't the one who makes you into an us.
— Lauren Sabel, Lies I Live By
Papilio stomachus: fragile creatures, vulnerable to forst and betrayal.
— Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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— Petra Hermans
Censorship & Torture.Netherlands, NuenenAugust 17, 2016P.C.M. Hermans
— Petra Hermans
Who replied evasively is betraying himself
— Válgame, Zori 2ª Parte
There are different kinds of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it.
— Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
She'd betrayed her country because she'd believed it was the right thing to do. Yet would she have done this, if not for Arin?He knew none of it. Had never asked for it. Kestrel had made her own choices. It was unfair to blame him.But she wanted to.
— Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss
your facethrough the blurred visionof my disillusioned eyesmergeswith the rest of them.
— Anna Jae
There are many ways to become mistress (or master) of one's fate after a betrayal, but they all have things in common: conscious effort and a fighting spirit, embodied in what I call 'the Affirmative No.' The Affirmative No incorporates self-enhancing outrage, independence, and courage. It is a stance through which a traumatized person actively proclaims her will by rejecting the role of victim.... Unable to change our predicaments, we actively changed their meaning and our relationship to them, and in the process, we discovered that we could exert power when we thought we had none.
— Jeanne Safer, The Golden Condom: And Other Essays on Love Lost and Found
He tells me he can't believe how bitter he has become, how sour, that all his life he had been one of the most fun, one of the happiest, one of the most joyous people anyone knew, and now he was like a crumpled piece of steel covered in rust. The way he describes himself, a 'crumpled piece of steel covered in rust,' I don't think I'll ever forget those precise words or his voice as he said them.
— Jacob Wren, Rich and Poor
To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
— Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
How I should have raised all her terrible destruction to the surface like a shipwrecked boat dredged up from the sea floor. But that would have given the fracture a shape, a dimension--a definite perimeter to the ruin. This way has a subtle cruelty. This way will torment. She will spend years trying to map the rift she caused and sound the damage. She will push on the bruise and grow frantic trying to repair the creeping remoteness. It is the unkindest thing I have ever done. And I will not relent. I will not do otherwise.
— Priya Parmar, Vanessa and Her Sister
But to begin again? No, Virginia. There can be no beginning again. Love and forgiveness are not the same thing.
— Priya Parmar, Vanessa and Her Sister
How long will you continue to betray Jesus. I know you think he can defend himself like Judas thought but one of these days He will be the taken away. He will be killed. Dead in your heart.Dead till the word does nothing to you when it's preached.
— Mary Tornyenyor
Still, we're less betrayed by others, it seems, than by our own hopes and dreams.
— Martha Moody, Best Friends
... sexual abuse by the mother is considered to he one of the most traumatic forms of abuse. In some ways it's the ultimate betrayal.
— Cameron  West, First Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple
Sometimes we do not realize how many people give a damn until something horrible happens. And sometimes we realize that those who should give a damn, whom we counted on giving a damn, sometimes really don’t
— Monika Basile, The Queen of Broken Things
No one understands betrayal like the one who has been betrayed.
— Ken Poirot
There were many forms of betrayal. Betrayal of friends. Comrades. Even life.
— Hollow Ryan, Ivy
The unknown is scary. It’s unknown for a reason. That's why normal people don't go there.
— Geoff Green, Paying for the Past
The greatest betrayal is betraying yourself.
— Ama H. Vanniarachchy
Because you decided I couldn't take it!" I shout. "You kept the truth from me because you thought I couldn't handle it. You were so wrong! I can take it straight up! That's what hurts me the most. I'm not some fragile thing that needs to be treated like a glass house. It's humiliating and it just pisses me off that you pretend like I'm not strong. I get that you're a man...you feel the need to protect me. I get that you're afraid and my strength feels dangerous to you. And you know what? It should feel that way, because it is. It's power.
— Elisa Marie Hopkins, A Diamond in the Rough