Betray Quotes

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

Do not betray the people.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

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

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.

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.

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

Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

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.

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.

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

I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.

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

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

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.