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25 phrases of betrayal (in a friendship or in a couple)

25 phrases of betrayal (in a friendship or in a couple)

April 9, 2024

When honesty is conspicuous by its absence, some people take the liberty of lying and cheating, either from the back or directly to the face.

Betrayal occurs when someone we thought we trusted plays a trick on us , speaking ill of us or failing to a commitment that had acquired. The betrayal can cause a lot of discomfort and sadness, and that is that many individuals place all the trust in that person, be it a friend or a boyfriend or girlfriend, and they take a tremendous disappointment.

Famous quotes about betrayal of couple and friendship

Friendship can be broken into a thousand pieces when a betrayal occurs. Frequently, betrayals are related to infidelity and disloyalty. When a betrayal occurs in the yes of a couple, they are usually caused by marital infidelity.


Although the betrayals can be of different types and have different circumstances, several writers and thinkers of history have left famous phrases about the betrayal. In this article we will discover the most remembered and best illustrate this unpleasant feeling of having been deceived.

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1. As faithful as one wants to be, he never fails to betray the singularity of the other to whom he is addressing. (Jacques Derrida)

A famous quote by the French philosopher who opens the point of view.

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2. Who to be a traitor bows, will later 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 the mentecatez of Judas Iscariot. (Antonio Machado)

The Spanish poet reminds us of one of the most famous traitors in history.

4. Many of them, for pleasing tyrants, for a handful of coins, or for bribery or bribery are betraying and spilling the blood of their brothers. (Emiliano Zapata)

The Mexican revolutionary talks about how traitors sell themselves to the powerful due to moral and material misery.

5. All those who are afraid or all those who think to betray in some way are moderate. (Ernesto Che Guevara)

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

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 who wants to establish a free State and does not kill the children of Brutus, will only keep his work for a short time. (Nicolás Machiavelli)

If you want to guarantee that you will not be betrayed, cut off any suspicious element at the root.

8. There are daggers in the smiles of men; the closer they are, the more bloody. (William Shakespeare)

You can not trust anyone but yourself.

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

If in your environment you have people who are silent when they should warn you, go thinking of changing friends.

10. A single betrayal is enough to start distrusting even the most loyal. (Fred Rogers)

It is convenient not to take the distrust to an extreme.

11. You can betray me once. One time only (Isaac Hayes)

Never again let them take advantage of your confidence.

12. We laugh at the 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.

13. Just thinking about betraying is already a consummate betrayal. (Cesare Cantú)

The simple fact of raising it already makes you a traitor, according to the Italian historian.

14. If you betray your partner, betray all the foundations on which your credibility as a human being is based (Ruth Gatling)

About infidelity in courtship.

15. More betrayals are committed out of weakness than for a firm purpose of betrayal. (François de La Rochefoucauld)

Laziness and comfort can also result in betrayal by default.

16. The time is coming when good repute is the exception and betrayal is the norm. (Mario Vargas Llosa)

The writer complains about living in an era full of imposture.

17. Infidelity is like partnering with someone and stealing money from the box. (Fernando Sabino)

About the ruin of putting the horns on someone.

18. Infidelity is deceit. It is breaking an affective-sexual pact that you had with your partner. Fidelity is not an absence of desire for others, but something more than love, it is an act of will; that's where the reason comes in, I decide to be faithful with self-control and avoidance at the same time. If I need to have many people, in addition to my partner, then I should look for a partner who thinks the same way I do. (Walter Riso)

The writer explains his point of view about the betrayal of a couple.

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

Couple problems are accentuated when jealousy intervenes in the relationship.

20. Betraying a friend is such an immoral act that the person who commits such wrongdoing should never raise his eyes from the ground. (Facundo Cabral)

A radical vision of the Argentine writer.

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 treason. (Tennessee Williams)

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

23. A traitor can betray himself and inadvertently 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 being surrounded by treacherous souls. (William Burroughs)

If you have lived near many people who are not trustworthy, hide and protect yourself.

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

Argentine politics leaves us with an ambitious phrase to pose the future.


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