Betray Quotes

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

Friends, Lovers

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

Character, Nothing, Laugh

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

Money, Tired, Corruption

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

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Yourself, Else, Somebody

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

End, However, Intent

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

Love, Betrayal, Happen

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

Nature, Heart, Her

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

Power, Ashamed, Tradition

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.
Michael Rosenbaum

Life, Friend, Another

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
William Penn

Trust, Another, Shall

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

Hope, Hate, Friend

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

Men, Lie, Public

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.
Colin Farrell

Judge, Children, Jealous

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

Hope, Friend, Country

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.
Joseph Conrad

Country, Friends, Talk

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.
Jimmy Carter

Confidence, Lie, Tell

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

Difficult, Guilt, Looks

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

Wisdom, May, Nation

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.
Joseph Story

Wise, Honest, Public

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

Freedom, Sacrifice, Measure

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
Elie Wiesel

Experience, Transmit

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

Beauty, Cannot, Sure

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

Politics, Country, Either

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?
Oliver Goldsmith

Men, Art, Woman

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

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

Women, Men, Smart

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.
Sarah Bernhardt

Character, Impossible, Once

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.
Michael Bloomberg

Play, Victory, Else

Do not betray the people.
Muqtada al Sadr

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Related Definition

Betray Definition

Geoffrey Chaucer

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us