Betray Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.