Betray Quotes

The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads.

I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand,-- One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery!

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

If you want to serve the age, betray it.

Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.

I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

A false tale often betrays itself.

One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.

A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.

Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.

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.

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.

We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.

And who shall say--whatever disenchantment follows--that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree, the singing, and the gold?

I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.

Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.

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.

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.

If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to.

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God.

Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!

Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.

Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!

Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves.

More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.

....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.

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.

Do not betray the people.

It is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful.

No matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. Ther's no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.

... love always betrays its intentions.

You can never betray the people who are dead.

If you betray yourself, you are no different from the people who hurt you. What's the difference between those people who hurt you and what you are doing to yourself?

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him.

Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very "poetry of his soul".Well,it's not easy but men do it all the time.

Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.

There's nothing worse than betraying yourself.

Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet.

The finest people, as people go, cannot help but betray a fair portion of fear and insecurity, even full-blown panic.

When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.

Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.

The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself.

Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness.