Top 80 Betray Quotes

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us – when we succeed, it betrays us.

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

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.

Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.

I have left my home, my family, and my job, and I am raising my voice. To do otherwise would betray those who languish in prison. I can speak when so many cannot.

Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.

Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn’t feel so special.

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.

In classic noir fiction and film, it is always hot. Fans whirr in sweltering hotel rooms, sweat forms on a stranger’s brow, the muggy air stifles – one can hardly breathe. Come nightfall, there is no relief, only the darkness that allows illicit lovers to meet, the trusted to betray, and murderers to act.

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.

What I do and what I love, I don’t betray that. Sometimes people say you have to tolerate it. No, you have to do what you think necessary, what your heart tells you, and go where the Almighty leads you.

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

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

The tendency of people skirting 30s and 40s is to feel lethargic or weak. But trust me, most of it is in your head. If you keep pushing and challenging yourself, your body will not betray your will.

When you trust, and you open your heart, and you think – well, maybe not heart – when you put down your guard and you let someone in and they betray you, that guard goes up really hard.

I can’t betray anyone. I don’t know what it’s like to really betray someone. I’m very loyal to my circle, my family, and those I hold close to me.

In the case of my book, I don’t think it’s really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he’s enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

Growing up, I was a target. Speaking the right way, standing the right way, holding your wrist the right way. Every day was a test, and there were a thousand ways to fail, a thousand ways to betray yourself, to not live up to someone else’s standards of what was accepted, of what was normal.

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.

I loathe having a fragile brain and knowing as I make any plan that I should provide for the possibility that my mind may betray me at short notice.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

Where I grew up, the one unmistakable sign of homosexuality was to betray some interest in your appearance.

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

Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that’s their downfall.

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

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

It’s very difficult to think that you’re with someone that you know, and all of a sudden you don’t know them: it turns out that they betray you. It’s painful, but it’s best to turn the page.

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

Joy doesn’t betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.

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.

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.

Lovers have a right to betray you… friends don’t.

An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.

Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.

You have to respect who the character is. It has its own internal truth, and you can’t betray that. And if you don’t betray that, it will not betray you.

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.

I would never betray the people.

The ability of the press to print their stories without the government trying to get them to betray their sources is as essential to a free press as the ink it is printed with. Otherwise, who will hold accountable those who hold power over us?

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

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

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 shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn’t betray things that are true to me as a poet.

If somebody who appears to be a Hizmet sympathizer has been involved in an attempted coup, he betrays my ideals.

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

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

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

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Being a successful Hollywood actress may be challenging, but little did I know that the very body that had always been my calling card would betray me.

More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.

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.

I have a complex feeling about genre. I love it, but I hate it at the same time. I have the urge to make audiences thrill with the excitement of a genre, but I also try to betray and destroy the expectations placed on that genre.

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.

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.

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.