Betray Quotes

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?

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

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.

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

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 will not betray my country.

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

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.

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

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