Best Betrayal Sayings
619 Betrayal quotes by 440 unique authors
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Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.
— William Wordsworth
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Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip, rubbish - on…
— Hanif Kureishi
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There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.
— John Updike
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All trust involves vulnerability and risk, and nothing would count as trust if there were no possibility of betrayal.
— Robert C. Solomon
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My highest achievement: never shutting my heart down. Even in my darkest moments - through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies and betrayals -…
— Oprah Winfrey
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There was too much noise. Sirens from police cars and ambulances. Shouts from the crowd on the street eighteen floors below. Traffic from other streets…
— Unknown Author
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I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become…
— Oriah Dreamer
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Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.
— Publilius Syrus
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To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.
— Publilius Syrus
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When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.
— Publilius Syrus
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Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.
— Publilius Syrus
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Anyone who promises that everything can be made the way it used to be with the recipes of the past betrays in reality the people…
— Matthias Platzeck
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How can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, 'Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow,…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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I was captivated by Sherrie Flick's meticulous and intelligent study of Margaret and Vivette, and the men they share. Reconsidering Happiness is a courageously intimate…
— Jim Crace
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Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all…
— Julie Burchill
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When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women.
— Julie Burchill
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Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape from us, that…
— Wilkie Collins
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The verdicts today should send the message that within the police department there is no greater betrayal of the badge and of the brotherhood than…
— Loretta Lynch
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I believe that drudgery and clock-watching are a terrible betrayal of that universal, inborn entrepreneurial spirit.
— Richard Branson
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The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this temptation,…
— Arthur Koestler
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The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain,…
— Chris Hedges
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Betrayal was the greatest of all crimes, for it took all that was human within a person and made it a thing of pain. In…
— Steven Erikson
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I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also I have a…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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A world without pain, loss, betrayal, hate, death, loneliness? Impossible!
— Darren Shan
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Such a scheme.. the betrayal of the national democracy of Industrial Ulster, would mean a carnival of reaction both North and South, would set back…
— James Connolly
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