Double Cross Quotes

Be careful of your enemy once and of your friend a thousand times, for a double crossing friend knows more about what harms you.

Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe

There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

When it comes to treachery, he is implacable.

And what does anyone know about traitors, or why Judas did what he did?

The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

Any man can turn traitor.

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

We must be brief when traitors brave the field.

To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.

When I was making these damned pictures, I never knew about film noir. If you had asked me about it then, I probably would have pointed to something like Bill Wellman's The Ox Bow Incident, the best Western I ever saw and very much in the style of film noir I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the double-cross that defines what kind of drama it is.

I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.

Judas is neither a master of evil nor the figure of a demoniacal power of darkness but rather a sycophant who bows before the anonymous power of changing moods and current fashions. But it is precisely this anonymous power that crucified Jesus, for it was anonymous voices that cried 'away with him! Crucify him!'

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

When you worked with Vinod Khanna, you knew that you would never be double-crossed.

Do not turn your back on anyone. You may be painted on one side only.

Plots behind plots, plans behind plans. There was always another secret.

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man.

Betrayal betrays the betrayer.

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.

Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.

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