Traitor Quotes

“What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. "Only innocent lives, Peter!"
"You don't understand!" whined Pettigrew. "He would have killed me, Sirius!"
"THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared Black. "DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“...I feel like a traitor, a phony, a fake. But I am a hypocrite with the best intentions, and I need kissing desperately.”
― Coco J. Ginger

“Do you think we’ll be waiting long?” Valkyrie asked,
keeping her voice low.
“The last time we were in this building, we accused the
Grand Mage of being a traitor,” Skulduggery said. “Yes, I think
we’ll be waiting long.”
― Derek Landy, The Faceless Ones

“Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give to an American.”
― Edward Snowden

“Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.”
― Wendell Phillips

“You can call anyone you want a traitor as long as you're the one holding the pen.”
― Nihad Sirees

“The fast fliers are not disgraced." Queen Ree reached up for the missing tiara. "She saved us, but she's with him now."
Vidia was complicated, two fairies in one, a loyal traitor.”
― Gail Carson Levine, Fairies and the Quest for Never Land

“Honesty whispers, "Don't get pricked by the thorns of lie.”
― Angelica Hopes

“Suffering is the fuel in the engine of civilization."


-Vergere”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Traitor

“A director is a general in charge of an army of traitors like any showman. An audience will love you, laugh with you and wait outside your stage door when you're hot and on a roll, but no audience is ever truly friendly. Not for long. Bore 'em or disappoint 'em - even once - and they'll turn on you and tear you to pieces, regardless of who you are or might once have been.”
― Richard Stanley

“Such a disappointment when you defend someone for so long thinking they are different and they turn out to be just like what everyone said.”
― Khayri R.R. Woulfe

“Those women who had gone out with Germans were grabbed and treated very badly, often shaved totally bald so that everyone could see who they were. Some were taken prisoners. There had been so much suffering during the war because of the betrayal of those collaborators, so many killed and hurt because of what they had done to families, that the mood for revenge against the traitors was very high. It was not right, but it was understandable.”
― Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say

“The romance of treason never occurred to us for the brutally simple reason that you can't betray a country you don't have. (Think about it).”
― James Baldwin, Dark Days

“First mutiny?” Naomi said.
“Yeah. It’s not really something I do.”
“It gets easier.”
― James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn

“Revenge is a color, a color that never fades. A beautiful color. It is the color of the sky at dawn when lovers are hauled out of their beds and garroted in the middle of the street; the color of the ancient sea when Noah’s Ark has been breached below the water line; the color of Jacob’s Ladder as it collapses while Jacob has climbed only half-way to heaven. But it is more than that, much more. It contains the pigment that colors the eyes of the lovers that betray you.”
― Mark Romel, The Mistletoe Murders: A Nietzschean Murder Mystery

“Make friendship but be aware foolish and traitor.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“What has my country ever done to me, little girl? No land, no life, just a uniform and a gun.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Ruin and Rising

“Go to sleep, I sing.
“No,” I tell myself.
Go to sleep, I beg.
I am a traitor to myself.”
― Linden A. Lewis, The First Sister

“I know what you're thinking,' Xaden says in that deceptively soft voice of his, and there's a flicker of fear in those onyx depths.

'You have no idea what I'm thinking.' Fucking. Traitor.

'You're thinking I betrayed our kingdom.'

'Logical guess. Good for you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“I judge him to be one who is not false save only in policy.”
― E.R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros

“To most Americans, Peggy remains an enigmatic and nearly forgotten figure. Early historians depicted the former Philadelphia belle as a Loyalist whose fondness for British officer John Andre led her to corrupt Arnold's political views. By the early twentieth century, members of her family attempted to correct that view.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married

“There are two kinds of friends:
Those who would risk everything to further your dreams.
And those who grudgingly show support because they take you for a rival and a threat.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“The character of traitor is to destroy surrounding in sake of others.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Baru,” Solit said, in exasperation, “would you please demonstrate to your mother and I that you can entertain an agreeable woman for at least one afternoon?”
― Seth Dickinson, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant

“But all I heard were those two words he'd said, echoing against the steady beat of traitor, traitor.

She's mine.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“Because you needed to know that not everything was a lie." -Casteel”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“A developed country consists on acreative minds and loyal people, a failed country consists on ignorants and traitors.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Careful ma'am. Talk like that leads to the dungeon for being a traitor to the crown."

"I am the crown! Is my father already gone?"

"Aye. He left not twenty minutes ago." The server replied.”
― Tayler Marie Brooks, Sugar Plum Princess

“Stabbity stab, knife wife,' says Fala, with feeling. 'Traitor's blood is hot, but it still spills.”
― Holly Black, The Prisoner’s Throne

“The problem is not that the enemy will invade you, the problem is the internal enemies, and the traitors.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih