"Faithlessness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... break off their engagements is not generally very publicly known, but the duke came out from this interview in a fit of great vexation and anger. He pulled off the queen's ring and threw it from him, muttering curses upon the fickleness and faithlessness ...
— Queen Elizabeth - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott
... person coming from an interview with him might construe as a promise the kindly remarks with which the President wished to soften a refusal. The promise, which was no promise, not being kept, the suppliant accused the President of faithlessness or falsehood. McKinley, it was said, could say no to three different seekers for the same office so balmily that each of them went away convinced that he was the successful applicant. Yet McKinley escaped the charge of mendacity and Roosevelt, who deserved ...
— Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography, • William Roscoe Thayer
... said the lady, looking up from the enamoured and conquering eyes of the king, "art thou not ashamed, my lord?—the grim earl comes to chide thee for thy faithlessness to thy queen, ...
— The Last Of The Barons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... the Teuton, haply the Roman Empire might still be standing. As it was, the statesmen of the day, men of temporary shifts and expedients, living only as we say "from hand to mouth", saw, in the changing moods of the Germans, only the faithlessness of barbarism, which they met with the faithlessness of civilisation, and between the two the Empire—which no one really wished to ...
— Theodoric the Goth - Barbarian Champion of Civilisation • Thomas Hodgkin
... in accents of the liveliest surprise, dismay, and horror. "Oh, woman! Woman! The faithlessness! The treachery!" ...
— Happy Pollyooly - The Rich Little Poor Girl • Edgar Jepson
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