Betray Quote by Livy

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

— Alphonse de Lamartine

One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.

— Marvin J. Ashton

Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it.

— Thomas Jefferson

Betrayal, abandonment, deceit and manipulation.

— Bill Cosby

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in…

— Ben Macintyre

A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.

— James Madison

Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run,…

— Eudora Welty

The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Self-deception is so far from impossible that it is one of the most ordinary phenomena with which we are acquainted. Nothing is more usual…

— William Godwin

Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence…

— Samuel Johnson

What matters to us is the revelation of the swindle, fraud, or defalcation. This makes known to the world that things have not been…

— Charles P. Kindleberger

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

— Charles Simmons