Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
It is impossible to betray another man's child - for whatever reason - without also betraying one's own. To do less than… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery --even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Your enemy will always plan to destroy you in any way possible thus take care of your friends, he may use them.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far. — Vicente Fox Copy Share Image
Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The truth was that she had managed to betray everyone by doing nothing. No one in history had ever done less and… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
The difference between being Mexican and being Chinese, as I can see it, is that when you go to Harvard from a… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The political nonsense of network television and the culture of a set and all the problems that that can create, I can… — Richard Schiff Copy Share Image
O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first… — Joaquin Miller Copy Share Image
Why does the Destroyer hate Artemis? (Cassandra) Love. Why else? Love, hatred, and revenge are the most powerful emotions on earth. Apollymi… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Honestly? I don’t want people around me for two reasons – they ultimately betray you or they die on you. Either way,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
