A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
Titus Livius

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

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.
John Dryden

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.
James Madison

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

He who advises you to be reserved to your friends wishes to betray you without witnesses.
Don J. Manuel

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

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.
E. M. Forster

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

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.
Elia Kazan

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

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.
John Mellencamp

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

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.
Richard Russo

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

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

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

Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall.
Simone Schwarz-Bart

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.
Ray Davies

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
William Wordsworth