Top 100 Quotes About Betray
#1. Men of profound sadness betray themselves when they are happy: they have a mode of seizing upon happiness as though they would choke and strangle it, out of jealousy
ah, they know only too well that it will flee from them!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#2. Jealous is ugly, it will betray you in a heartbeat.
Devyn Dawson
#3. Beware of pride and arrogance, Charles, for they may betray you.
Madeleine L'Engle
#4. See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow and the rhythm, the tumbling out of the words, is a betrayal, and it's a sin, Martin, it's a sin.
Hank (Kerouac)to Martin (Ginsberg) in the film Naked Lunch
David Cronenberg
#5. Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.
Frank Herbert
#6. Ink and paper were the only place where my voice didn't falter, didn't betray the real me.
Sarah Ockler
#7. Life will test you, hurt you, betray you, break you, swallow you, shatter you... but as long as it doesn't leave you, you still have a shot.
Manoj Vaz
#8. She said you were an awesome lay, I said, feigning interest in the gush of water that spilled out from the gutter by the lockers. My face would betray me if he saw it.
Well, that's true, Noah said.
Michelle Hodkin
#9. When we translate, we always to some extent betray the text we are translating. That is why translation is so hard and thankless. All you can do is to fail in the least egregious way possible.
Jay L. Garfield
#10. The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination, whose vast abdomens betray them.
Henry David Thoreau
#11. Our moods may shift, but God's doesn't. Our minds may change, but God's doesn't. Our devotion may falter, but God's never does. Even if we are faithless, He is faithful, for He cannot betray himself. He is a sure God.
Max Lucado
#12. Trust those you love, and that love you in return," she said. "It will hurt more if they betray you, but at least you'll still know joy." - Zusa
David Dalglish
#13. If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.
George Bernard Shaw
#14. When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.
Honore De Balzac
#15. A man who sells his conscience for his interest will sell it for his pleasure. A man who will betray his country will betray his friend.
Maria Edgeworth
#16. I cannot betray you, but I might betray myself. Come, come! wait and see me betray myself. I shall do it so nicely.
G.K. Chesterton
#17. Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep.
Ray Davies
#18. Your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.
Charles Bukowski
#19. Helping people was always a mistake ...
Trust was a word for fools. It was a word people used when they meant to betray you.
Joe Abercrombie
#20. Mathematically, maybe," I said. "But trust isn't one of those things that lends itself well to math." "Sure it does," Bob said. "You trust somebody, they betray you, you get a negative value. You never trust, they can never disappoint you, you break even.
Jim Butcher
#21. Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there?
William Shakespeare
#22. No. No, I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid, and I'm sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret.
J.D. Robb
#23. Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.
Sarah Bernhardt
#24. Hope could betray you - but if you had no hope, life could actually
surprise you in the best of ways.
Amy Lane
#25. Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.
Michael Ignatieff
#26. If you are following Deity's plan for you, it isn't always the easy path; sometimes it's the hard one. So why follow? Because to do any less is to betray your own abilities and gifts, and the faith that Deity has in you. Who would do that willingly?
Laurell K. Hamilton
#27. I have known kings and criminals. I prefer criminals. They cheat, steal and betray, but at least you don't have to worship them while they do it.
Lynda S. Robinson
#29. What did he mean? Was he saying he liked me as in "We're friends, of course I wouldn't betray you"? Or as in "You're not an awful person, and I'm happy for you to be queen"? Or . . . or did he mean he liked me, as in he liked me? As in had feelings for me? I
Rhiannon Thomas
#31. Our judgments betray our expectations, and our expectations betray our experience. What we project about the future reveals a lot - about the world we live in, and about our own past.
Brian Christian
#32. Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people.
Alexander Hamilton
#33. I would rather die than betray his trust."
"That's not saying much, seeing as you're already dead," Ron observed.
"Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe," said Nearly Headless Nick in affronted tones.
J.K. Rowling
#34. A straw enables you to drink without using your wrist. A straw is your friend - until you lose eye contact with the straw. Then it will betray you and make you look like an idiot.
Demetri Martin
#35. Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself.
Mason Cooley
#36. Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
John Dryden
#37. O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first to repent and regret.
Joaquin Miller
#38. I treat everyone as a friend, but if they betray me, that's it. They're out of my life in one way or another.
Michael Rosenbaum
#39. Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old age and seems torn between a fear they will betray him into sentimentality and a resigned acceptance that a man can't be ironic all the time.
Angela Carter
#40. Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.
Frantz Fanon
#41. Always choose your bodyguard from another country, they find it harder to make alliance and betray you.
Nancy Farmer
#42. I see a girl, soon to be a woman," Tibb continues. "The girl who will share your life. She will love you, she will betray you, and finally she will die for you. And it will all have been for nothing. All for nothing in the end.
Joseph Delaney
#43. I don't know what to do, I want to die but you're making me stay alive, I'm not sure if I should betray you and do it or move on and push through it.
Lindzz
#44. Russians are never more cooperative than when they are about to betray you.
Orson Scott Card
#45. Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you. It will set your free.
Mumford And Sons
#46. There's something AMAZING about you. You owe it to yourself to fulfill your destiny. You were put on earth for a reason. Don't betray yourself because of other people opinions of who you should be. God has already implanted within you who you MEANT to be. Trust your gut instincts.
Yvonne Pierre
#47. To kill deliberately is very wrong," said Chen Gong. "I would rather betray the world than let the world betray me," was Cao Cao's reply. Chen Gong could say nothing.
Luo Guanzhong
#48. I look away so that my eyes don't betray the hurt I feel
Adele Parks
#49. Your tongue is your horse, and if you let it loose it will betray you.
Jean Sasson
#50. Be true to Love.
Do not betray Her.
Then, on the day
that the forest of the mind
bursts into flames,
you will not run.
You will remain silent and still;
for this is when Love bears
Her sweetest fruit:
untouched Presence.
Mooji
#51. I glance back at Shepherd. His eyes betray his mixture of revulsion and curiosity. It's obvious he knows he shouldn't want to hear this, that the horror is too great, yet he can't stop himself from listening.
Carrie Ryan
#52. Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.
Terry Goodkind
#53. Let the letters clash forming an invisible meaning of a sunny night, freezing chimney, and silent screams. When words betray you, hold on to your imagination.
Mona Naqi
#54. Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.
David Gemmell
#55. Then trust me, at least until the first time I betray that trust.
V.W. Singer
#56. It was the same with the whole Russian machine. Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than retreat. Advance against the enemy and the bullet might miss you. Retreat, evade, betray and the bullet would never miss.
Ian Fleming
#58. It has always been my conviction that Indian parents who train their children to think and talk in English from their infancy betray their children and their country. They
Mahatma Gandhi
#59. Unfortunately, you choose things because they're safer---that is understandable, though. Inanimate objects don't do unexpected things or break your heart or betray you. Objects are safe. People are complicated.
J.R. Ward
#60. You can't feel crazily grateful to be alive your whole life any more than you can stay passionately in love forever - or grieve forever, for that matter. Time makes us all betray ourselves and get back to the busywork of living.
Tim Kreider
#61. One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.
Mary Balogh
#62. The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and yet been so wrong. Not cheating on a non-boyfriend with the non-boyfriend of a friend. The pressure of thinking that one through made her swollen body ache.
Maureen Johnson
#63. Nothing could be more dishonorable than to accept high rank and command in war and then betray the trust.
Ulysses S. Grant
#64. The worst your enemy can do is kill you. The worst your enemy can do is betray you. Fear only the indifferent because at their silent consent treachery and death flourish.
Eric Van Lustbader
#65. If you walk through a door with dead locks,bolts and chains don't betray or turn your back on that trust.The privilege of knowing all that goes on behind that door should be treated as an extraordinary gift.For many people will only ever see half of the real person they've known for years.
Anonymous
#66. Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
Terry Goodkind
#67. Get the
Jews out of banking and they cannot control the economic life
of the community. Get the Jews out of education and they cannot
pervert the minds of the young to their subversive doctrines.
Get the Jews out of government and they cannot betray the
nation.
Eustace Mullins
#68. Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort - you deserve this. You have killed yourself.
Emily Bronte
#69. I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
Mary Harris Jones
#70. The moment you betray your heart is the moment you lose everything.
J.A. Redmerski
#71. Let all those in government be warned: They cannot order people to pay for the murder of babies, and betray God Himself, without horrific consequences.
Randall Terry
#72. When the dead betray the living, the victims are memories.
The Book of Brin
Michael J. Sullivan
#73. Love does not fail for you when you are rejected, betrayed or apparently not Loved. Love fails for you when you reject, betray and do not love. Therefore .. Love.
Adi Da
#74. We mean are so weak. Our bodies betray even the noblest of us. - Ser Arys
George R R Martin
#75. Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
Joseph Story
#76. Heads will fly all over the place, others will explode by themselves, everyone will have their chance to betray, and those who don't betray will be betrayed.
Sandro Veronesi
#77. And where jazz music was concerned, there was a saying, Segodnia on igraet dzhaz, a zavtra rodinu prodast: Today you play jazz, tomorrow you betray the motherland." Igor,
Michael Segell
#79. Miniature Emilie came along. Lincoln could tell she was watching him, but he tried not to encourage her. He didn't want to betray Beth. They wouldn't let you ride Splash Mountain, he thought.
Rainbow Rowell
#80. Aika often says that she is the only one capable of loving me the same way I am is the one capable of loving her, and no one will be able to stand my twisted personality other than her and for me to betray her is unthinkable and impossible
Cullen Thomas
#81. Actions do not betray, but language is filled with the danger of betrayal at any instant. This quality is what makes language both infinitely beautiful and infinitely frightening.
Enchi Fumiko
#82. The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life.
Wendell Berry
#83. We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. In fact, to cave to popular sentiment would be to hand a victory to the terrorists, and we should not stand for that.
Michael Bloomberg
#84. If someone betrays you once, it's their fault; if they betray you twice, it's your fault.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#85. Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy.
William Wordsworth
#86. A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.
Maureen Dowd
#87. I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.
Elia Kazan
#88. At no time have I ever done anything that would betray the public trust.
John McCain
#89. Self-loathing and self-worship can easily be the same thing. You hate the small sack of fluids and resentments that you are, and you would go to any length, and betray anything and anyone, to preserve it.
N.D. Wilson
#90. And Vin liked solitude. When you're alone, no one can betray you
Brandon Sanderson
#91. A girl who is willing to give every ounce of herself to someone, who could never betray her lover, who never suspects maliciousness of anyone, and whose sexuality sleeps in her, waiting to be stirred.
Steve Martin
#92. So what?" I challenged, pulling the quilt tighter around myself. "All you're telling me is I won't betray my friends or family. If that's a weakness, it's one I want.
Julie Kagawa
#93. Today, I refuse to be pinned down to an identity. Right away, I want to betray it.
Erin Moure
#94. Don't just follow your heart. Your heart will betray you.
Andrew Peterson
#95. Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.
Ken Follett
#98. And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, 135 The instruments of darkness tell us truths, 136 Win us with honest trifles, to betray 's 137 In deepest consequence. - 138
William Shakespeare
#99. In the way that you need to clear the way to make a road, those who betray and abandon you expose things you need to remove from your life. They reveal the mistakes you made in trusting them and how you can avoid them in the future, and move on.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#100. Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not only of Brother Leon but most grownups, most adults: they were vulnerable, running scared, open to invasion.
Robert Cormier
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