Betray Quotes

In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations.

When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.

Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. It can be so, sometimes.

A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie.

Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee; but answer thou their language with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet.

Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself.

There's nothing worse than betraying yourself.

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

Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.

The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.

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

The finest people, as people go, cannot help but betray a fair portion of fear and insecurity, even full-blown panic.

Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in them.

How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!

Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there?

Knowing that Nature never did betray the heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, through all the years of this our life, to lead from joy to joy.

Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

You can always count on your family to love you. And to betray you. And then to feel guilty about it.

Having chosen this foolishness, I was a free being. How could the world ever stop me, how could I betray myself, if I was not afraid?

No one betrays us as much in our lives as we betray ourselves.

When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied.

We can depend on nobody in this world, and sometimes we even betray ourselves.

Stop at nothing to get the best work that you can get. Betray, violate, cause enormous harm.

If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.

When we oppose the hidden conscience, it does us hurt. When we betray it, it judges us.

Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn't a place you can be happy anymore.

Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.

Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.

Only those you trust can betray you" ~ Nathan

Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy.

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.

All of us must act selfishly to Iearn charity, must lie to learn honor, must betray and be betrayed to learn to value trust and commitment.

For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions.

The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.

Love means having something to betray.

First, do not betray yourself. Second, do not betray those you lead.

Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members.

The present necessarily betrays the past.

Goering's ideas betray a consistent desire to create something essentially new, implying all the historic virtues, but unlike [anything] of the past.

Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you.....and protect me, for today I could betray you.

America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I'd rather be America's enemy.

Trade it may help, society extend, But lures the Pirate, ant corrupts the friend: It raises armies in a nation's aid, But bribes a senate, and the land's betray'd.

Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.

So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.

And Vin liked solitude. When you're alone, no one can betray you

To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.