Betray Quotes

The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

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.

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.

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

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.

To betray, you must first belong.

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

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?

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

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.

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.

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.

To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

I will not betray my country.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

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

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.

Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

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.

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.