Best Betray Proverbs
545 Betray quotes by 423 unique authors
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Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they…
— Elizabeth Debold
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
— Seneca the Younger
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An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own; and this is especially the case with…
— Joseph P. Farrell
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Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
— William Hazlitt
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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.
— Honore de Balzac
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To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And…
— William Shakespeare
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How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!
— William Shakespeare
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Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand,--…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!
— Ovid
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Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of…
— Samuel Johnson
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Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.
— John Armstrong
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It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.
— Tori Amos
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If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust.
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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Ford Motor Company's sluggish and piecemeal approach to its automotive responsibilities betrays motorists' safety.
— Ralph Nader
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
— Abraham Cowley
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Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
— Livy
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The award is destined for scientists who do not fear to touch on some of the darkest aspects of being without betraying what they have…
— Vaclav Havel
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People are born in a certain place, and in a certain society. I don't mean to sound like a determinist, but to think we're entirely…
— Thomas Frank
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If you want a war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men are ever subject, because doctrines get inside a…
— William Graham Sumner
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No Republican could expect to win the GOP nod after betraying his party's rank and file.
— Grover Norquist
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