“Betrayal is beautiful.”

“There is such a thing as too much beauty in a woman and it is often a burden as crippling as homeliness and far more dangerous. It takes much luck and integrity to survive the gift of perfect beauty, and its impermanence is its most cunning betrayal.”

Pat Conroy book The Prince of Tides

“there are different types of infidelity, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“War is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of idealists by cynics and of troops by politicians.”

Chris Hedges (1956) American journalist

“Betrayal. That’s the first thing I feel, which is ludicrous. For there to be betrayal, there would have had to been trust first.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

“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 (1925–1965) American human rights activist

“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.”

Arthur Miller (1915–2005) playwright from the United States

“Look. What happened, that was just business. Personal betrayal I can understand. But never betrayal of one’s people you serve, or your country.”

Nguyen Khanh (1927–2013) South Vietnamese soldier

“There comes a time when silence is betrayal.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

“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.”

George Orwell book 1984