Betrays Quotes
122 quotes by 109 authors
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Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself. This is an interesting phrase, not current as far as I know in the…
— James A. Baldwin
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The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as…
— Gregory Maguire
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You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.
— Jeanette Winterson
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Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it
— Sara Gruen
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To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone betrays you once,…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Feelings aren't good or bad. They're just weak or strong. Love, for example, is weak: someone loves you, you love them back, you're happy for…
— Dan Wells
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No. Take the heart first. Then you don't feel the cold so much. The pain so much. With the heart gone, there's no reason to…
— Jeanette Winterson
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At the snowy summit of all these things, however, is the fact that you simply cannot go about locking your siblings in towers when they…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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It would be stupid to confide your entire plan to one person. It’s infinitely smarter to give little pieces of it to each person working…
— Veronica Roth
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If he betrays you, I will finish what I started with his fingers," he said, and I shivered. "Tell him that.
— Kim Harrison
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Our faith in others betrays that we would rather have faith in ourselves. Our longing for a friend is our betrayer. And often with our…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
— Confucius
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No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.
— Blaise Pascal
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He who loves his enemies betrays his friends; this surely is not what Jesus meant.
— William Blake
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Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.
— Margaret Atwood
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When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the…
— Judith Butler
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To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught…
— Dennis Prager
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An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art…
— Nance O'Neil
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