Betray Quotes
No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility.
Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the sake of technique.
Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.
Every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.
When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse.
Let not the titles of consanguinity betray you into a prejudicial trust; no blood being apter to raise a fever, or cause a consumption sooner in your poor estate, than that which is nearest your own.
Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.
If a spiritual being is naive to the lower aspects of the world, they usually are killed or die young. Did Jesus really know which of the twelve would betray him? I doubt it.
What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.
There is a peculiarity in the countenance, as everybody knows, which, though it cannot be described, is sure to betray the Englishman.
I swear by the mighty power of Amon-Ra, whose anger can shatter the world, and by the dread power of Set, that I will never betray my trust as High Priest of Karnak.
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.
Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.
She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her
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.
The most prosaic of us betray a belief in the inward life every time we talk about 'my body' rather than 'I.
I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.
If he betrays you, I will finish what I started with his fingers," he said, and I shivered. "Tell him that.
The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.
How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
If I were to be really petulant, I would say New York is the one doing the betraying. Because the New York I fell in love with doesn't really exist anymore.
Always choose your bodyguard from another country, they find it harder to make alliance and betray you.
Those South Africans who berate me for being loyal to our friends, literally they can go and throw themselves into a pool. I am not going to betray the trust of those who helped us.
She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her.
There is no such thing as unlimited trust. At some point, all beings with free will can, and will, betray you when you're no longer pursuing the same goals.
But he kept finding new pockets of shallow inside himself. He kept finding new ways to betray her.
When the literary class betray a destitution of faith, it is not strange that society should be disheartened and sensualized by unbelief.
Night-dreams trace on Memory's wall Shadows of the thoughts of day, And thy fortunes, as they fall, The bias of the will betray.
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.
