Best Betraying Quotes
80 Betraying quotes by 72 unique authors
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They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is…
— Joseph Conrad
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A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
— Lawrence Durrell
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
— E. M. Forster
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I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing…
— Nicole Kidman
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Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
— Marilyn Monroe
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When I'm at the greatest odds with my body, it's usually because I feel my body's betraying me, whether that's been in the past, struggling…
— Demi Moore
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And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette…
— Camille Paglia
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization…
— Edward Abbey
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To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this monument to the…
— Cornel West
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There's a place beyond words where experience first occurs to which I always want to return. I suspect that whenever I articulate my thoughts or…
— Jerzy Kosinski
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Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder…
— Andrew Sullivan
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Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him in the seat…
— Nicole Krauss
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Those who feel guilty contemplating "betraying" the tradition they love by acknowledging their disapproval of elements within it should reflect on the fact that the…
— Daniel Dennett
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First you have nothing, and then, astonishingly, after ripping out your brain and your heart and betraying your friends and ex-lovers and dreaming like a…
— T.C. Boyle
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I get the feeling," Alec said, and smiled, "she hasn't forgiven me for betraying you, as she sees it." "Good girl," said Jace with appreciation.…
— Cassandra Clare
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Love doesn’t stop people from betraying each other
— Richelle Mead
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True love was forever lost. The prince was never coming back to kiss me awake from my enchanted sleep. I was not a princess, after…
— Stephenie Meyer
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The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other.
— Paulo Coelho
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It is remarkable how a man cannot summarize his thoughts in even the most general sort of way without betraying himself completely, without putting his…
— Thomas Mann
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The truth was, it was myself I couldn't trust, my eyes from betraying my heart.
— Elizabeth Chandler
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Whatever you describe to another person is also a revelation of who you are and who you think you are. You can not describe anything…
— James A. Baldwin
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I. At Tea THE kettle descants in a cosy drone, And the young wife looks in her husband's face, And then in her guest's, and…
— Thomas Hardy
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Teachers wondered why I didn't speak up more in class. Why would I when I knew how precarious words could be, how betraying they were,…
— Justina Chen
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The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who…
— Jack London
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Spilling a Secret What its size, will have varying consequences. It’s not possible to predict what will happen if you open the gunnysack, let the…
— Ellen Hopkins
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