Betraying Quotes

80 quotes by 74 authors

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
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
To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence. — Italo Svevo
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own. — Joseph P. Farrell
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
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
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
Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt! — Ovid

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