Benjamin Clementine Quotes

You ran away and left us to do the job that you could not do.

Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us.

He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

Letting someone down is not criminal action.

You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.

One who once took pleasure in subscribing herself your friend, Abigail Adams

A person could look at me through ninety-five per cent of my experience and know that I had no shot. Because I was so unreliable. The only thing you could rely on me for was to betray you.

I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.

It is often our best friends who throw us down.

arrears, n. My faithfulness was as unthinking as your lapse. Of all the things I though would go wrong, I never thought it would be that. "It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.

The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.

When you point your finger 'cause your plan fell through You got three more fingers pointing back at you!

Promise is the capacity for letting people down.

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

Sometimes I think he’s the kind of friend that grownups call a ‘fair-weather friend.’ That means when everything’s going smoothly, he’s the best friend a guy could want. But as soon as something goes wrong…(he) sort of turns on you.

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

I guess after tonight Boots won't think the whole world is her friend," thought Gregor. She had to find out sometime, but it still made him sad.

I think of the snarling, cruel exchange back on the hovercraft. The bitterness that followed. But all I say is "I can't believe you didn't rescue Peeta." "I know," he replies. There's a sense of incompleteness. And not because he hasn't apologized. But because we were a team. We had a deal to keep Peeta safe. A drunken, unrealistic deal made in the dark of night, but a deal just the same. And in my heart of hearts, I know we both failed. "Now you say it," I tell him. "I can't believe you let him out of your sight that night," says Haymitch.

Now you've given them hope, and they're unhappy. So the blame is all yours.

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that remained unchecked, like a betrayal that was now unbreakable. So I never found a way to ask her why she had hoped something so large that failure was inevitable. And even worse, I never asked her what frightened me the most: Why had she given up hope?

I'm sorry I couldn't carry the ball over the finish line, but, man, I did try.

No man is worthy of unlimited reliance-his treason, at best, only waits for sufficient temptation.

I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.