Betrays Quotes

122 quotes by 110 authors

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. — Edmund Burke
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. — Lord Chesterfield
Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you. — John Boyle O'Reilly
A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are… — Joseph Addison
The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
It is alleged by men of loose principles , or defective views of the subject, that religion and morality are not necessary or important qualifications… — Noah Webster
Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private person to do… — Walter E. Williams
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely… — Richard Dawkins
A single word often betrays a great design. — Jean Racine
Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive,… — Billy Graham
Nature! We live in her midst and know her not. She is incessantly speaking to us, but betrays not her secret. We constantly act upon… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. — Mahatma Gandhi
Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one… — George Washington
Whenever someone tries to deny the truth, ultimately, reality betrays him. — Greg Koukl
Calligraphy may well be simply an artistic version of another form, that is the ideograms which make up the poem, but then not only does… — Sijie Dai
Sometimes a thong completely betrays you. — Channing Tatum
When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right… — Alexander Hamilton
Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says 'What… — Germaine Greer
We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays. — Learned Hand

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