Betray Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.

— Lord Chesterfield

I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.

— Cato the Younger

Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe

— William Shakespeare

A traitor may betray himself and do good he does not intend.

— Anonymous

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

— William Penn

Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why,…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Treason, which begins by being cautious, ends by betraying itself.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.

— Thomas Hobbes

We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Treason is the highest crime of a civil nature of which a man can be guilty.

— Noah Webster

The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Any man can turn traitor.

— Mario Puzo