40+ Backstabber Quotes That Help You Stand Up for Yourself

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One of the worst feelings in the world is being backstabbed by someone that you trust. These backstabber quotes are an example of how horrible betrayal is.

• "Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned." ― Eminem

• "If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty." ― Marilyn Monroe

• "Never let anything come in between you and your Passion. Let negative people and backstabbers be the reason you put wood into your Fire and Motivate you to reach Above and Beyond" ― Arsi Nami

• "Let's be honest, the cards' on the table: Jealousy's a sin, Cain killed Abel. Backstabber...Caesar had Brutus. It's hard to weed 'em out, even Jesus had Judas." ― Pusha T

• "She's not impressed by your fancy car. She got a body so she's snotty and she don't care who you are. So don't get mad and dis her reputation. Callin' her a floozy, any conversation. Mad grammar, backstabber, girls they wanna be her. But like Stevie Wonder, none of y'all can see her!" ― Positive K

• "I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords." ― Linus Torvalds

Quotes for backstabber

• "What I'm primarily saying,' he says, 'is that this is a time for knowledge assimilation, not backstabbing. We learned a lesson, you and I. We personally grew. Gratitude for this growth is an appropriate response. Gratitude, and being careful never to make the same mistake twice." ― George Saunders

• "The people are different in L.A. There was a time when I lived in New York and that was a bit of a shock, because everybody in New York was so honest, instead of so polite and backstabbing. But you learn to love the backstabbing politeness in L.A." ― Scott Clifton

• "Bug eating and backstabbing are the stuff of great entertainment." ― Mark Burnett

• "Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime." ― Mineko Iwasaki

• "To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal." ― Malcolm X

• “Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.” ― Shania Twain

• “Keep in mind that even if someone stabbed you in the back ten years ago, they still have the knife.” — Michael Lipsey

• “There is no fall greater than the one from a burnt bridge.” ― Carlos Wallace, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments Into Your Greatest Blessings

• “Every coin has two sides, just like most people have two faces.” ― Rashida Rowe

Backstabber friends quotes

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It’s quite disheartening when you know that one of your friends makes things up and talks behind your back. Here are some backstabber quotes to relate to.

• "Bestfriends has 11 letters, but so does Backstabber." ― Wiz Khalifa

• "Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight." ― Lauren Conrad

• "False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade." ― Christian Nestell Bovee

• "Backstabbing occurs when a friend agrees with you when the two of you are alone but later sides with your opponents in a social setting." ― Les Parrott

• "True friends stab you in the front." ― Oscar Wilde

• "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." ― William Blake

• "To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting" ― Jacqueline Carey

• “A stab from a friend cuts deeper than a stab from a foe.” ― Amit Kalantri

• “This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.” ― Sophie Kinsella

• “I don’t even care enough to set the record straight. It was hilarious, what a huge liar she was. She actually believed her own bullshit.” ― Jenny Han

Family backstabber quotes

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Even your own flesh and blood can sometimes betray yourself. These backstabber quotes describe how hurtful it is to be backstabbed by your own relative.

• "To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting" ― Jacqueline Carey

• "From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life." ― Anais Nin

• "It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it." ― Nicole Richie

• "You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!" ― Maya Angelou

• "You know that you have been stabbed when you feel the deep pain of betrayal." ― Les Parrott

• “People who talk behind you, always left behind you!” ― Sophieya

• “No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.” ― Cicero

• “When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.” ― Isaac Bashevis Singer

• “If they talk about other people with you, they will talk about you with other people.” ― Carlos Wallace

• “Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson