Quotes about Breach of Confidence

Chanakya

Never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

Bosnian Proverb

Who lies for you will lie against you.

Abraham Lincoln

Yours of the 23rd, is received; and I am constrained to say it is difficult to answer so ugly a letter in good temper. I am, as you intimate, losing much of the great confidence I placed in you, not from any act or omission of yours touching the public service, up to the time you were sent to Leavenworth, but from the flood of grumbling dispatches and letters I have seen from you since.

General Hunter had been assigned as the Commanding General of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas which Hunter thought was a “banishment”. Lincoln, who was generally very gentle and courteous when disciplining subordinates, could be quite firm also, but always reasonably courteous.

Joan Didion

Writers are always selling somebody out.

James Cagney

You dirty, double-crossing rat.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Lara Trump

Woman to woman, I shared a connection with Omarosa as a friend and a campaign sister, and I am absolutely shocked and saddened by her betrayal and violation on a deeply personal level.

Wesley Clark

Nothing could be a more serious violation of public trust than to consciously make a war based on false claims.

George W. Bush had told the country that the reason for the Iraq War was that Iraq had developed weapons of mass destruction. After the invasion it was determined that there were no such weapons that had justified the war. Debate since has concentrated in whether the Bush administration had pressured the intelligence experts to provide the information they wanted to justify the war or whether the administration was misled by their intelligence agencies.

Scottie Pippen

Don't disrespect me, lie about it, and then come smile in my face and act like nothing's wrong.

Tom DeLay

When you have a president who in my opinion has cheated on his wife, he will cheat on the American people.

Arthur Miller

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Harry Houdini

Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.

Kevin Pietersen

The hardest thing is that you can't trust people now. You just can't.

Paul Craig Roberts

Everyone who ever trusted Washington has been betrayed. Possibly there is an exception somewhere, but the betrayals are vast and are sufficient in number to define Washington as the least trusted entity on the earth.

Bob Graham

The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.

Joseph Conrad

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

Joseph Smith Jr.

All the enemies upon the face of the earth may roar and exert all their power to bring about my death, but they can accomplish nothing, unless some who are among us and enjoy our society, have been with us in our councils, participated in our confidence, taken us by the hand, called us brother, saluted us with a kiss, join with our enemies, turn our virtues into faults, and, by falsehood and deceit, stir up their wrath and indignation against us, and bring their united vengeance upon our heads.... We have a Judas in our midst.

He was soon thereafter murdered.

Jim Boeheim

When you can't be loyal to your friends, I don't like that world.

Katie Lee

Betrayal is one of my biggest fears. Betrayal happens on many different levels all the time, and there is no worse feeling than realizing someone you thought you could trust has gone against you.