Betray Quotes

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

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.

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.

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.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

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

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.

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.

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

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

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

Do not betray the people.

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

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

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

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

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

As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.