Betray Quotes

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.

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

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

But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes... And we don't judge and we don't betray. We're not jealous. We're not envious. We're not even weary, which is a danger also as kids. They have to learn a certain amount of awareness.

If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

There's always been a religious strain in me. I can't get rid of it. I don't want to get rid of it. I'm not involved in a church, but I understand that impulse to believe in something that's never going to betray you.

Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall.

Do not betray the people.

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

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.

To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

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.

I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

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

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.

I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

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

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 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.

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.

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

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

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.

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?

We would betray our values and play into our enemies' hands if we were to treat Muslims differently than anyone else. In fact, to cave to popular sentiment would be to hand a victory to the terrorists, and we should not stand for that.