Quotes About Friend Betrayal

#1. It's like that quote: 'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.' The choice between a duty or a principle, you know?

Zadie Smith

#2. It is easier for an ambitious friend to become an enemy than for an enemy to become a friend. It is even easier to make friends than you can find people to trust as friends.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#3. A circle of friends, doesn't always keep perfect relationships.

Anthony Liccione

#4. Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.

Publilius Syrus

#5. Her only way home was to betray her friend.

Scott Westerfeld

#6. 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

#7. No one knows your success or failure best than your enemy who pretends to be your greatest friend.

Auliq Ice

#8. ...No man is foolish when his friend betrays him because a man's world is most serene when he has people to trust and call friends. After all, is it not often said that a friend is another self?

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#9. If you believe in the idea of true friends,
then your heart is vulnerable to betrayal.

Toba Beta

#10. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

William Blake

#11. Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.

Gregory David Roberts

#12. 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

#13. To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#14. A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Oscar Wilde

#15. The betrayal of a friend differs from the treachery of a lover only in the degree of pain, not the kind.

Robin Hobb

#16. False friends, like weeds, try very hard to appear genuine.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our love we want merely to overcome envy. And often we attack and make ourselves enemies, to conceal that we are vulnerable.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. We've all gone through some kind of betrayal, whether it's with a boyfriend or a friend or a family member. That's why this is so relatable to everybody because we all know what it feels like to feel that betrayal.

Cameron Diaz

#19. A woman will endure many wounds in her lifetime, but the betrayal of a friend is one of the most difficult to overcome.

Tina Samples

#20. I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

Edward Abbey

#21. A stupid friend can hurt you more than a smart enemy.

Erol Ozan

#22. If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if people should try to spread evil reports about you, would you tamely submit to all this without flying into a rage?

Moliere

#23. What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that I
wasn't feeling humiliated, or annoyed, or even fooled. Betrayal was
what I felt, my heart broken not just by a guy I was in love with, but
also by, as I once believed, a true friend.

Danka V.

#24. Never back a woman you defend, never get quit of a friend on whom you depend, never make face to a foe till he's rife and never get stuck to another man's pfife.

James Joyce

#25. In 'Se7en' and 'Fight Club,' Fincher proved his suave mastery of film violence; in Zodiac, his way of clarifying the many clues in a murder thriller. As he showed in 'The Social Network,' the director also knows that no wound is more toxic than a friend's betrayal.

Richard Corliss

#26. Friendship is one friend betraying another friend to a third friend. With a fond friendly smile. The greater the betrayal, the greater the intimacy - the greater the friendship.

Craig Raine

#27. The feeling of betrayal by the friend you trust

Jeon Tae-il

#28. Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#29. The reason people fear to confide in anyone is that even an internal friend can make personal details external, and it will remain eternal.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#30. The attack of an enemy is easier to fend off than the betrayal of a friend.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#31. He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

Oscar Wilde