Betray Quotes
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....it cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means one can aquire power but not glory.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.
John Tillotson
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What it is controlled cool, in a way. Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
Arthur Ashe -
How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!
William Shakespeare -
If you want to serve the age, betray it.
Brendan Kennelly -
I whirl around, stare into his grimy, grief-stricken face. His face is beautiful and so good. How could I have believed he'd betray us?
Carrie Jones -
There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.
Ernest Hemingway -
Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
William Hazlitt
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If you betray me, can I take a better revenge than to love the person you hate?
Pierre Corneille -
Why marry a woman if you're going to betray her, and if you're going to betray her, why beat her? The fault is not hers ... I sometimes think the worst we do, we do behind closed doors.
Rita Mae Brown -
Can it be chat modesty may more betray Our sense than woman's lightness?
William Shakespeare -
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 -
I don’t understand anything...and I no longer want to understand anything. I want to stick to the fact...If I wanted to understand something, I would immediately have to betray the fact, but I’ve made up my mind to stick to the fact.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.
Maureen Dowd
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For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions.
Coco Chanel -
I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.
Cato the Younger -
Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.
Sara Gruen -
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 -
Oh, you need Alan to betray Nick and then you'll steal Nick's powers and kill them both," said Mae. "Great idea. Hey, can i come? I'll bring a picnic lunch if you promise not to let blood get on the sandwiches.
Sarah Rees Brennan -
I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread.
Jules Verne
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The individual, no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he would use it, does not have the passion to rip himself away from either the coils of Reflection or the seductive ambiguities of Reflection; nor do the surroundings and times have any events or passions, but rather provide a negative setting of a habit of reflection, which plays with some illusory project only to betray him in the end with a way out: it shows him that the most clever thing to do is nothing at all.
Soren Kierkegaard -
A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.
George Eliot -
Her only way home was to betray her friend.
Scott Westerfeld -
I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.
Albert Camus