And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray him unto them.
And when they heard it, they were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently betray him.
And as they sat and did eat, Jesus said, Verily I say unto you, One of you which eateth with me shall betray me.
And immediately, while he yet spake, cometh Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders.
And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead him away safely. Mark 2:10&11&18&43&44
Then entered Satan into Judas surnamed Iscariot, being of the number of the twelve.
And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them.
And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.
And he promised, and sought opportunity to betray him unto them in the absence of the multitude.
And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him.
But Jesus said unto him, Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss? Luke 22:3-6&47&48
Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?
He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve. John 6:70&71
When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. John 13:21
And if they would betray thee, they betrayed Allah before, and He gave (thee) power over them. Allah is Knower, Wise. Koran 8:71
65,135. Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard
Some do it with a bitter look
Some with a flattering word
The coward does it with a kiss
The brave man with a sword. Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray. Albert Camus, The Fall
Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you. Sherrilyn Kenyon, Invincible
You teach me now how cruel you’ve been – cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself. Yes, you may kiss me, and cry; and wring out my kisses and tears: they’ll blight you – they’ll damn you. You loved me – what right had you to leave me? What right – answer me – for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will did it. I have no broken your heart – you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you – Oh, God! would you like to lie with your soul in the grave? Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
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
Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very ‘poetry of his soul’. Well, it's not easy but men do it all the time. Mario Puzo, Fools Die
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, 1984
Sometimes they threaten you with something – something you can't stand up to, can’t even think about. And then you say, ‘Don’t do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so.’ And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn’t mean it. But that isn’t true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there’s no other way of saving yourself, and you’re quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don’t give a damn what they suffer. All you care is yourself. ibid.
Why shouldn’t I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they’re loved and wanted and then show them that it’s all a sham. Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore. Sigmund Freud
The fear really hits you. That’s what you feel first. And then it’s the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself. Charles Bronson
Within the pages of The Betrayal of America I prove that these justices were absolutely up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush. Vincent Bugliosi
Peter Sellers: Takes you time to find out who your friends are, innit? Course I’ve been betrayed.
Terry-Thomas: We’ve all been betrayed, old chap. televised interview
We really stuck the knife in her, didn’t we, Bert? Oh we really gave it to her good. Then we twisted it, didn’t we, Bert? ... I loved her, Bert. I traded her in a pool game. The Hustler 1961 starring Paul Newman & Jackie Gleason & Piper Laurie & George C Scott & Myron McCormick & Murray Hamilton & Stefan Gierasch et al, director Robert Rossen
‘The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.’
‘I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self.’
‘You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.’ John Fowles, The Magus
Does anyone of the American left give a damn about what their brothers and sisters in these countries feel or want? No, they don’t even ask. Doesn’t come up. That’s betrayal. That I would call treason. Christopher Hitchens, interview Iraq: Conflict & Hope
It was perhaps the most lucrative criminal racket in history. Between 1979 and 1984 the Sicilian Mafia smuggled nearly two billion dollars’ worth of heroin into the US. It made mobsters on both sides of the Atlantic rich. It also led to war. In Sicily rival bosses fought for control of the heroin-trafficking empire. The terror this war unleashed drove on godfather to break omerta, the Mafia’s sacred code of silence. His act of betrayal would lead to a transatlantic assault on the Mafia and make the first serious dent in their worldwide power. Heroin was flooding into the United States in the late 1970s. Smuggled inside Italian food products and distributed through Pizzarias owned by the Sicilian Mafia. It was known as the Pizza Connection. The US faced an epidemic of heroin addiction. But for American gangstas heroin meant money. And lots of it. Inside the Mafia: The Great Betrayal, National Geographic 2005
I’ve been imprisoned. I’ve been beaten. I’ve been betrayed. Humans s3e6, Mia to Dryden Commission, Channel 4 2018
In December 1992 my friends and I shot a road movie on the streets of Singapore that was to become a kind of urban legend – that move was called Shirkers. Shirkers, opening commentary, 2018
The film was a time capsule of a Singapore that was both real and imaginary. ibid.
Our teacher was George Cardona – a man of unplaceable age and origin. ibid.
I ran away to a strange cold place – England. ibid.
We had pulled off the impossible – we made a movie. ibid.
He [George] was gone and so was Shirkers … George took everything. ibid.
She [wife] said George was dead. She also told me she had found 70 cans of film labelled Shirkers and that they were all in perfect condition. ibid.
Why would George keep everything from Shirkers? ibid.
My fucking people! I did not betray my fucking family! Peaky Blinders s5e2: Black Cat, Michael, BBC 2019
He pursued a brilliant career in the Soviet army. One of the most influential members of the USSR. But in 1960 he betrays his country to offer his services to the American enemy. Colonel Oleg Penkovsky, a spy embedded in the vaults of Soviet power. But can he be trusted? Spies of War III: The Spy Who Saved the World, Apple 2019
America’s secret weapon: a prolific spy who almost single-handedly pulled the world from the brink of nuclear wear. ibid.
He compromised over 300 KGB & GRU officers. ibid. Randy Burkett, CIA historian