Henry Fielding Quotes

Betrayal... is my favorite subject.

Betrayal. It's one of the worst feelings.

Ingratitude is treason to mankind.

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.

I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!

A lot of people let me down... A lot of people I thought were my friends turned on me.

A man who will traduce those who stood with him in battle is not worth much.

You have committed a crime against us and against the Revolution, Mayakovsky. All your words thunder with a voice like Niagara Falls. Mayakovsky, you have betrayed us.

People are so selfish. Those you help are the ones who turn against you.

In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

Betrayal is beautiful.

Let’s just say I understand betrayal. And having been where he is, I know the explosion to come. Trust me. ‘Duck’ won’t quite cover it. (Sin)

Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn anyone - he thought - to denounce anything, to fight and die joyously, claiming the sanctity of virtue. The broken promises, the unconfessed desires, the betrayal, the deceit, the lies, the fraud - he was guilty of them all. What form of corruption could he scorn? Degrees do not matter, he thought; one does not bargain about inches of evil.

Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. “Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. “That is the way of the world.

I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.

arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that. "It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe

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.

You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to receive our aid when you came at last to these shores fainthearted loiterers and well-nigh emptyhanded. In huts on the beaches would you be dwelling still had not the Noldor carved out your haven and toiled upon your walls.

... no matter how nice you are to some people, they'll turn their back on you the second they get the chance.

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.

ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

You promised you would protect her Nico said. He might as well have stabbed me with a rusty dagger.It would've hurt less than reminding me of my promise.