Betraying Quotes
80 quotes by 74 authors
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He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is…
— Samuel Adams
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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
— Walter Benjamin
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To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.
— Italo Svevo
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And when you try to live there, to live in a place where you're betraying yourself over and over, not only do you grow to…
— Ron Currie Jr.
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There's always been a lot of misunderstanding about Lando's character. I used to pick up my daughter from elementary school and get into arguments with…
— Billy Dee Williams
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The factory workers say that it's impossible to do anything right. If you arrive five minutes early you are a saboteur; if you arrive five…
— Len Deighton
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God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of the cross when I walk out onto the field. I feel…
— Diego Maradona
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Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning,…
— Haile Selassie
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There are certain promises you make that are more sacred than anything that happens in a court of law,I don't care how many Bibles you…
— Paul Castellano
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The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly absorbed by fictions,…
— George Steiner
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Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.
— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
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Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see…
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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The zombie is in a lot of ways the perfect horror movie bad guy. It plays on so many fears all at once. The fear…
— James Gunn
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And what fastens attention, in the intercourse of life, like any passage betraying affection between two parties? Perhaps we never saw them before, and never…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own.
— Joseph P. Farrell
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The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum…
— Anne-Marie Slaughter
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For AERO, I wanted to revisit in 5.1 some existing tracks in order to give them that space I had imagined when I originally composed…
— Jean Michel Jarre
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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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Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!
— Ovid
Who Wrote These Betraying Quotes
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