Betray Quotes - Page 8

• The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign; who must take numerous glasses in order to get the ‘kick’.

  Jack London

  Couple, Men, Glasses

  Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.212, Lulu.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yet the arts of Severus cannot be justified by the most ample privileges of state reason. He promised only to betray; he flattered only to ruin; and however he might occasionally bind himself by oaths and treaties, his conscience, obsequious to his interest, always released him from the inconvenient obligation.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, History, Might

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.100, Wordsworth Editions

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, 'His color is not mine,' or 'His beliefs are strange and different,' in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Color, America, Justice

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1965

  103 Copy quote

  Show source

• You couldn't be perfect enough to keep the world from betraying you.

  Libba Bray

  Perfect, World, Enough

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.239, Scholastic Inc.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• When my face is flushed with blood, it becomes red and obscene. It betrays at the same time, through morbid reflexes, a bloody erection and a demanding thirst for indecency and criminal debauchery.

  Georges Bataille

  Blood, Criminals, Red

  Georges Bataille (1985). “Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939”, p.8, Manchester University Press

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Blood, Genealogy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.240, Harvard University Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is the everlasting disgrace of the Clinton Administration that it has chosen to betray America's heritage as a beacon of freedom, and instead to act as the ally and agent of a police state in retrieving one of its prisoners.

  David Horowitz

  America, Police, Allies

  5 Copy quote

• We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned, T’lan Imass. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the wold. It must be given freely. In abundance.

  Steven Erikson

  Believe, Compassion, Knowing

  11 Copy quote

• No. Take the heart first. Then you don't feel the cold so much. The pain so much. With the heart gone, there's no reason to stay your hand. Your eyes can look on death and not tremble. It's the heart that betrays us, makes us weep, makes us bury our friends when we should be marching ahead. It's the heart that sickens us at night and makes us hate who we are. It's the heart that sings old songs and brings memories of warm days.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Life, Song, Pain

  5 Copy quote

• There's ways you can trust an enemy you can't always trust a friend. An enemy's never going to betray your trust.

  Daniel Abraham

  Enemy, Way

  4 Copy quote

• You’re not the only one who’s loyal and decent, Ture. It’s why I won’t betray Darling. He wouldn’t betray me and I know it. When someone really loves you, they find a way to get to you, even in the darkest night, against all odds. Through the worst nightmares, they are there, holding your hand. They’re there to stand with you to the end. I don’t just believe that. I know it. - Zarya Starska

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Love You, Believe, Night

  4 Copy quote

• The friendly preacher who fails to warn of the reality of Hell, betrays the Son of God with a kiss.

  Ray Comfort

  Son, Kissing, Reality

  FaceBook post by Ray Comfort from Sep 08, 2014

  31 Copy quote

  Show source

• A defensive war is apt to betray us into too frequent detachment. Those generals who have had but little experience attempt to protect every point, while those who are better acquainted with their profession, having only the capital object in view, guard against a decisive blow, and acquiesce in small misfortunes to avoid greater.

  Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

  Military, War, Blow

  12 Copy quote

• The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

  Aldous Huxley

  Vision, Impossible, Kind

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.

  Philip Pullman

  Truth, Lying, Nerves

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do not know. Attachments are of great seriousness. Choose your attachments carefully. Choose your temple of fanaticism with great care. What you wish to sing of as tragic love is an attachment not carefully chosen. Die for one person? This is a craziness. Persons change, leave, die, become ill. They leave, lie, go mad, have sickness, betray you, die. Your nation outlives you. A cause outlives you.

  David Foster Wallace

  Lying, Love Is, Attachment

  37 Copy quote

• We can depend on nobody in this world, and sometimes we even betray ourselves.

  Dean Cavanagh

  Betrayal, World, Sometimes

  6 Copy quote

• Fifty or sixty shooters had already arrived and managed to look studiously bored. I knew a few of them and nodded politely. No one asked me to sit next to them, nor would I have accepted if they had. It's better that way, in case you end up on opposite sides of a fight, and a whole lot safer. Friends can betray you. Strangers can't.

  William C. Dietz

  Friendship, Betrayal, Fighting

  William C. Dietz (2014). “Bodyguard”, p.8, Open Road Media

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the sake of technique.

  Edward Abbey

  Style, Technique, Sake

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I get the feeling," Alec said, and smiled, "she hasn't forgiven me for betraying you, as she sees it." "Good girl," said Jace with appreciation. "I didn't betray you, idiot." "It's the thought that counts.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Appreciation, Feelings

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.753, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• And I could weep at how mean people are and how they betray their fellow creatures, perhaps for the sake of personal advantage. It is enough to make a person lose heart sometimes. I often wish I lived on a Robinson Crusoe island.

  Sophie Scholl

  Mean, Heart, Islands

  33 Copy quote

• The only constitutional exception to the power of making treaties is, that it shall not change the Constitution.… On natural principles, a treaty, which should manifestly betray or sacrifice primary interests of the state, would be null.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Sacrifice, Principles, Would Be

  7 Copy quote
• 

  When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense — to fight the government.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Fighting, Exercise, Government

  652 Copy quote

• when you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Honest, Honest With Yourself

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2007). “Sleeping With Strangers”, p.119, Penguin

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Honestly? I don’t want people around me for two reasons – they ultimately betray you or they die on you. Either way, you’re screwed and you spend all your time obsessing on why you didn’t see it coming. Or that you did something or didn’t do something to cause it. No offense, but I don’t like to be hurt and I’d rather just avoid it.(Ravyn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Two, People

  4 Copy quote