George Orwell Quotes

Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree.

Did you really think I would sell you out?

Who lies for you will lie against you.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

What is a disloyal act? A person is disloyal if he treats you as a stranger when, in fact, he belongs to you as a friend or partner. Each of us is bound to some special others by the invisible fibers of loyalty.

I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

To betray, you must first belong.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

Be careful of your enemy once and of your friend a thousand times, for a double crossing friend knows more about what harms you.

Theodore betrays his friends for his own ambition.

Be on guard against your friends.

Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.

He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.

For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel: Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him! This was the most unkindest cut of all

The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.

Thus did I bear Sir Lancelot de Lac to the Keep of Ganleon, whom I trusted like a brother. That is to say, not at all.

Who can protect themselves from betrayal? The day your brother wakes up and plans to do you dirty, there's no defense against that.

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?

Yes, my friend, and if you will steal for me then you will steal from me.

Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.

Murphy nodded, frowning at the road ahead of her. "The reason treachery is so reveiled," she said in a careful tone of voice, "is because it usually comes from someone you didn't think could possibly do such a thing.