Betray Quote by Mason Cooley

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

— Livy

Pretending to never get the text, from An annoying person who won't leave you alone -.-

— Anonymous

I could be writing the most boring text ever, but the minute you look over my shoulder, that text becomes TOP secret.

— Anonymous

“NOTICE Persons attempting to find a "text" in this book will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a "subtext" in this book will be…

— Wendell Berry

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

— Don DeLillo

Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.

— John Dryden

A letter is paradoxically the most revealing and the most deceptive of confessional revelations. We all have our inconsistencies, prejudices, irrationalities which, although strongly…

— P. D. James

No secrets, deception for these would tear this down. I'll note the past spare the pain.

— All That Remains

“I am just typing my reply when another message comes through. Don’t you just hate it when that happens? Anyway, I delete what I…

— Amanda Jane Walters

“A large class of readers … will suffer greatly from the introduction into the pages of this work of words printed with all their…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Don’t be confused by surfaces; in the depths everything becomes law. And those who live the mystery falsely and badly (and they are very…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

You would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all…

— Samuel Beckett