quotes about Betray
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America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I'd rather be America's enemy.
-- Ahmed ChalabiSource : "Where Plan A Left Ahmad Chalabi" by Dexter Filkins, New York Times Magazine, November 5, 2006.
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He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
You can never betray the people who are dead.
-- Anita Brookner -
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No one betrays us as much in our lives as we betray ourselves.
-- Barbara De Angelis -
So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.
-- Bernhard SchlinkSource : Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.134, Vintage
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If you want to serve the age, betray it.
-- Brendan KennellySource : "The Book of Judas". Book by Brendan Kennelly, 1991.
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Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.
-- C. S. Lewis -
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
-- Cao Cao -
Co-opted convictions will always betray you.
-- Charles M. Blow -
It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.
-- Christopher Fry -
There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust.
-- Daniel Abraham -
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else
-- Ed HarrisSource : "Ed Harris’ ‘Westworld’ Turn Was A Perfect Late-Career Move For One of Our Best Actors - Career Watch" by Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. June 05, 2017.
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when you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else!
-- Eric Jerome DickeySource : Eric Jerome Dickey (2007). “Sleeping With Strangers”, p.119, Penguin
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Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.
-- Frantz FanonSource : Frantz Fanon (2007). “The Wretched of the Earth”, p.41, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
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A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.
-- George Eliot -
In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations.
-- Hayao Miyazaki -
The rich will always betray the poor.
-- Henry Joy McCracken -
You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.
-- Holly Black -
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To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.
-- Italo Svevo -
At no time have I ever done anything that would betray the public trust.
-- John McCain -
First, do not betray yourself. Second, do not betray those you lead.
-- John Wooden -
If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.
-- Jonathan Zittrain -
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Could we betray our parents by going back to them?
-- Karen Russell -
Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.
-- Ken FollettSource : Ken Follett (2010). “Code to Zero”, p.143, Pan Macmillan
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We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.
-- Learned Hand -
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
-- Livy -
A friendship between reporter and source lasts only until it is profitable for one to betray the other.
-- Maureen Dowd -
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 -
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The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.
-- Michel Houellebecq -
I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.
-- Mother Jones -
All I trust is the past. Things that have ended can't betray me.
-- Novala Takemoto -
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We are not apart from nature, we are a part of nature. And to betray nature is to betray us, to save nature, is to save us.
-- Prince EaSource : "This Video Will Turn Even The Biggest Cynic Into A Tree-Hugger" by Kimberly Yam, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2015.
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Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.
-- Publilius Syrus -
Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand.
-- Raymond E. Feist -
I've always been quite a proud ginger so I couldn't dye it and betray the other gingers.
-- Rupert Grint -
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Art, in other words, betrays a sexy mental fitness.
-- Sam Kean -
Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.
-- Sam Tanenhaus -
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 -
Could I betray my absent heart to save my pathetic life?
-- Stephenie Meyer -
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Go nowhere on a horse that fades, for your dreams will betray you.
-- Tanith Lee -
We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
-- Vicente Fox -
Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy ...
-- Winifred HoltbySource : Winifred Holtby (2011). “South Riding”, p.164, Random House
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But even if you should betray me, I will forgive you.
-- Yun Kouga -
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To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.
-- Charles PalliserSource : Charles Palliser (2015). “Betrayals”, p.264, Hachette UK
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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. GarfieldSource : "Buddhist howls". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. December 28, 2012..
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It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.
-- Robert A. Burton -
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That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.
-- Roger ZelaznySource : "The Chronicles of Amber: Knight of Shadows". Book by Roger Zelazny, Chapter 3 (p. 63), 1989.