Betray Quotes

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

I will not 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Do not betray the people.

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

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

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

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

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

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

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

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

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 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.

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.