Eminem Quotes

An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

I've always said it's interesting to watch devils cry when angels want to stab you in the back. I like that mixture.

It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.

Worse than thieves, murderers, or cannibals, those who offer compromise slow you and sap your vitality while pretending to be your friends. They are not your friends. Compromisers are the enemies of all humanity, the enemies of life itself. Compromisers are the enemies of everything important, sacred, and true.

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

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.

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

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

Trust makes way for treachery.

Trust not a new friend or an old enemy.

Too often in politics the stiletto is slipped between your shoulder blades, while its wielder continues to smile sweetly.

Set of Vipers

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.

Arnold is a traitor, and has fled to the British! Whom can we trust now?

Goddamn bitch set me up!

In life, unfortunately, I've had multiple experiences where people that I thought I could depend on have switched up, or I've caught them in lies, and their true colours have shown.

You have to be 100% behind someone, before you can stab them in the back.

He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.

Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.

Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.

I stare at him. "You can't risk not winning. Not because of me." Sean doesn't lift his eyes from the counter. "We make our move when you make yours. You on the inside, me on the outside. Corr can come from the middle of the pack; he's done it before. It's one side you won't have to worry about." I say, "I will not be your weakness, Sean Kendrick." Now he looks at me. He Says, very softly, "It's late for that, Puck.

Whoever has trusted a woman has trusted deceivers.

We shall perish by guile just as we slew.