Double Cross Quotes

“No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“For all Conor Lenihan cared it could have been Osama Bin Laden who had organised the whole thing. He was simply a mercenary doing a job of work.”
― Michael Parker, The Eagle's Covenant

“Tell any grizzled old cutthroat a sob story about a double-cross and a broken heart and he'll eat right out of your hand.”
― Cassandra Rose Clarke, The Assassin's Curse

“I cross-examined him and he double-crossed me but that's fine; I'll prosecute him one day and he'll be sentenced to life without parole…with me.”
― Natalya Vorobyova, Better to be able to love than to be loveable

“Louie Milito was killed because, as Gravano would put it, “he fucked with me; I had to get John Gotti’s permission and I got it.” Explaining why Gravano had convinced Gotti of Louie's “subversive” [talk] behind his back.”
― John Gleeson, The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster

“So Sammy "the Bull" Gravano had falsely reported that DiB (Robert DiBernardo) was being subversive in order to get John Gotti to kill him, all so Gravano could take over the lucrative construction racket.”
― John Gleeson, The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster

“According to defense attorney, Bruce Cutler, Gravano misrepresented himself to FBI agents and prosecutors as a strong-willed, tough-as-nails gangster who had confronted Gotti when he had disagreed with his Mob policies. The lawyer recalled that in Gotti’s presence, 'Gravano was always subservient, even obsequious around John.'
And when the climactic test came, Sammy’s self-preservation was more important to him than saving his boss and dozens of his crime colleagues.”
― Peter Maas, Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia