Betray Quotes - Page 2

• You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

  Ed Harris

  Betrayal, Betrayed

  "Ed Harris’ ‘Westworld’ Turn Was A Perfect Late-Career Move For One of Our Best Actors - Career Watch" by Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. June 05, 2017.

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• If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to.

  John Mellencamp

  Betrayal, Years, Fans

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• You can never betray the people who are dead.

  Anita Brookner

  Betrayal, People, Sunbeams

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• More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.

  John Thorn

  Dream, Home, Past

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• ...Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.

  Terry Goodkind

  Lying, People, Mind

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Soul Of The Fire”, p.220, Head of Zeus

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• For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.

  Suzanne Collins

  Relationship, Trust, Betrayal

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.109, Scholastic Inc.

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• Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

  Edmund Burke

  Sacrifice, Government, Political

  Speech to electors of Bristol, 3 Nov. 1774

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• He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

  Theodor Adorno

  Betrayal, Past, Doe

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.166, Verso

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• If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

  E. M. Forster

  Friendship, Country, Cheating

  Two Cheers for Democracy "What I Believe" (1951)

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• To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.

  Publilius Syrus

  Betrayal, Self, Betrayed

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• There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to "Americanize" him.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Children, Arrogance, Immigration

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.262, Transaction Publishers

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• One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.

  Steven Dietz

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Deceit

  Steven Dietz (1996). “Dracula”, p.59, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.

  Honore de Balzac

  Husband, Betrayal, Want

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• And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Winning, Darkness

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 123

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• Each man kills the thing he loves.

  Anthony Burgess

  Broken Heart, Betrayal, Men

  Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.211, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

  Oscar Wilde

  Courage, Betrayal, Kissing

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 1, st. 7 (1898) See Roberts 1

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• We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Betrayal, People, Way

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• I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

  Albert Camus

  Relationship, Loyalty, Betrayal

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.86, Vintage

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• There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Smile, Spiritual, Character

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

  Anais Nin

  Sad, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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• It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.

  Winston Churchill

  Betrayal, Rats

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• I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Betrayal, Animal, Betrayed

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• To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal.

  Malcolm X

  Betrayal, Betrayed, Betraying Friends

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• I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

  Elie Wiesel

  Death, Holocaust, Doe

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• It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it.

  Nicole Richie

  Friendship, Betrayal, Long

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