Betray Quotes - Page 18

• A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

  Hannah More

  Envy, Spirit, Cold

  Hannah More (1862). “The Life of Hannah More: With Selections from Her Correspondence”, p.38

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• Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy.

  Winifred Holtby

  Time, Enemy

  Winifred Holtby (2011). “South Riding”, p.164, Random House

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• Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Emotion, Easy, Intention

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Styxx”, p.645, Macmillan

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• I see a girl, soon to be a woman," Tibb continues. "The girl who will share your life. She will love you, she will betray you, and finally she will die for you. And it will all have been for nothing. All for nothing in the end.

  Joseph Delaney

  Girl, Love You, Share

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• I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let’s think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow—that’s vulnerability.

  Brené Brown

  Emotional, Thinking, Safety

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.37, Penguin

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• But he kept finding new pockets of shallow inside himself. He kept finding new ways to betray her.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Pockets, Way, Shallow

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.161, St. Martin's Griffin

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• To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Love Is, Without Love

  Louisa May Alcott (2009). “A Modern Mephistopheles”, p.88, Bantam

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• To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century. ... Everything that counts in the common life is political.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Mother, Ignorance, Responsibility

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• The hand betrays the heart.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Heart, Hands

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”

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• Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Relationship, Inspiring

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.29, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Some people appear to be happy, but they simply don't give the matter much thought. Others make plans: I'm going to have a husband, a home, two children, a house in the country. As long as they're busy doing that, they're like bulls looking for the bullfighter: they react instinctively, they blunder on, with no idea where the target is. They get their car, sometimes they even get a Ferrari, and they think that's the meaning of life, and they never question it. Yet their eyes betray the sadness that even they don't know they carry in their soul. Are you happy?

  Paulo Coelho

  Country, Children, Husband

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• Only those you trust can betray you" ~ Nathan

  Terry Goodkind

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Stone of Tears”, p.76, RosettaBooks

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• There is no such thing as unlimited trust. At some point, all beings with free will can, and will, betray you when you're no longer pursuing the same goals.

  Rachel Caine

  Goal, Free Will, Unlimited

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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 language of any other people, which certainly does not mean what it says but betrays a nagging suspicion that something has been misplaced. I think now that if I had any intimation that the self I was going to find would turn out to be only the same self from which I had spent so much time in flight, I would have stayed at home.

  James A. Baldwin

  Home, Mean, Thinking

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• Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Enemy, Where You Stand, Knows

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• But why do you want to talk to me?' He is going to say: 'Because you look so kind,' or 'Because you look so beautiful and kind,' or, subtly, 'Because you look as if you'll understand....' He says: 'Because I think you won't betray me.' I had meant to get this mean to talk to me and tell me all about it, and then be so devastatingly English that perhaps I should manage to hurt him a little in return for all the many times I've been hurt.... 'Because I think you won't betray me, because I think you won't betray me....' Now it won't be so easy.

  Jean Rhys

  Beautiful, Hurt, Mean

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• The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed.' 'I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self.' He turned. 'You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy.'

  John Fowles

  Men, Race, Self

  "The Magus".

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• Why does the Destroyer hate Artemis? (Cassandra) Love. Why else? Love, hatred, and revenge are the most powerful emotions on earth. Apollymi wants revenge on Artemis for killing the one thing she loved most in the universe. (Katra) And that is? (Cassandra) I would never betray either one by saying it. (Katra) Would you write it down?...Oh, yeah, like the two of you weren’t thinking the same thing. (Chris)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Powerful, Revenge, Hate

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• Oh, you need Alan to betray Nick and then you'll steal Nick's powers and kill them both," said Mae. "Great idea. Hey, can i come? I'll bring a picnic lunch if you promise not to let blood get on the sandwiches.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Blood, Ideas, Lunch

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• I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me.

  Darren Shan

  Opportunity, Hands, Want

  Darren Shan (2007). “Cirque Du Freak: The Saga of Darren Shan”

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• Four characteristics constitute anyone who possesses them a sheer hypocrite, and anyone who possesses one of them possesses a characteristic of hypocrisy till he abandons it: when he is trusted he betrays his trust, when he talks he lies, when he makes a covenant he acts treacherously and when he quarrels he abuses.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Betrayal, Lying, Hypocrite

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• Self-loathing and self-worship can easily be the same thing. You hate the small sack of fluids and resentments that you are, and you would go to any length, and betray anything and anyone, to preserve it.

  N.D. Wilson

  Hate, Self, Loathing

  N. D. Wilson (2009). “Dandelion Fire (100 Cupboards Book 2)”, p.337, Yearling

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• If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.

  Christine Pelosi

  Believe, Fighting, Equality For All

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• I treat everyone as a friend, but if they betray me, that's it. They're out of my life in one way or another.

  Michael Rosenbaum

  Way, Treats, Ifs

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• My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Strong, Children, Character

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