Betrayal Quotes - Page 13

• Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Weakness, Complaining, Sincerity

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.369, Penguin

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• Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied to. Convinced his son had been dishonest regarding an issue, Cosby promised that if he told him the truth, he would not hit him. When his son did confess, Cosby did hit him. Seeing his son's shock and hurt, Cosby said he hoped this lesson had deepened his understanding of the anguish generated by a sense betrayal.

  Bill Cosby

  Hurt, Pain, Lying

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• It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning-and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or "The Fountainhead" that they will betray: it is their own souls.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Courage, Moving

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.13, Penguin

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• Betrayal, in all forms, is painful. It can make you go crazy. But we all have choices on how to deal with it. Do we just go away or stay?

  Anne Curtis

  Crazy, Choices, Going Away

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• Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Honesty

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.44, Bantam

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• Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heartbreak, Children, Thinking

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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• The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11...only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Government, Media, September 11

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, 2004.

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• Seeing Neil Entwistle accused of this awful crime gives us little comfort and, in fact, only adds to our enormous pain and suffering. To think that someone we loved, trusted and opened our home to could do this to our daughter and granddaughter is beyond belief. The betrayals to the family, to Neil's family, to our family (and) to our friends here and in the UK are unbearable.

  Joe Flaherty

  Daughter, Pain, Home

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• For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal. The tiny incidents of daily rouitine are as much a commentary of racial ideas as the highest flight of philosophy or poetry.

  Okakura Kakuzo

  Life, Appreciation, Philosophy

  Okakura Kakuzo (2012). “The Book of Tea: Classic Edition”, p.17, Tuttle Publishing

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• Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.

  Marisha Pessl

  Fall, Empires, Ridiculous

  Marisha Pessl (2013). “Night Film”, p.74, Random House

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• Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed by milky eye. She seems to pant, Time up, time up! My little dog must die, And lie in dust with Hector's pup; I So, presently, must I.

  Ogden Nash

  Dog, Time, Lying

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• Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last. If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

  Isabel Paterson

  Men, Race, Years

  "The God of the Machine" by Isabel Paterson, (p. 292), 1943.

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• My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He's in jail now.

  Dane Cook

  Mom, Brother, Dad

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can't build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I'm not writing 'The A-Team' - if there's a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Hurt, Team

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• Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Trust, Being Yourself

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• Our people outside of prison used my name to mobilize the community locally and internationally. But for me to be treated separately from my colleagues, who had contributed as much as and even more than I had, would have been a betrayal of them.

  Nelson Mandela

  Names, People, Community

  Source: profitmagazin.com

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• Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who broke out of the pages of anovel so that he could burn it, about a betrayal and a lost friendship. It's a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind." You talk like the jacket blurb of a Victorian novel, Daniel." That's probably because I work in a bookshop and I've seen too many. But this is a true story.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Dream, Book, Character

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.171, Penguin

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• I was my class playwright and I wrote plays set in villages with kings and chiefs.My plays were about treason and betrayals. If they were influenced by Macbeth, they were also influenced by Nigerian plays I had seen and Village Headmaster, a television drama series I had watched as a child.

  Sefi Atta

  Kings, Children, Drama

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• It's enough for a small betrayal, a distancing, an affirmation of independence to provoke wrath, fear and also hatred from the adult. How many husbands and boyfriends kill the woman they say they love because she has decided to leave. It's in the news every day.

  Dacia Maraini

  Husband, Love Is, Wrath

  "A ‘special’ writer. Dacia Maraini in interview". Interview with Vincenza Fanizza, www.threemonkeysonline.com.

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• No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving, Police, Guilty

  Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance”

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• More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

  Francis Bacon

  Trust, Adversity, Men

  Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.476

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• It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.

  Robert A. Burton

  Style, Betray

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• There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Lying, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

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• As the end of the what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

  Graham Greene

  Disappointment, Simple, Desire

  Graham Greene (2010). “May We Borrow Your Husband?”, p.25, Random House

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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

  Lying, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

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