Betrayed Quotes

• Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.

  Judy Holliday

  Friendship, Lovers, Friend Betrayal

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• Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.

  Joseph Story

  Wise, Fall, Order

  Joseph Story (1834). “The Constitutional Class Book: Being a Brief Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Designed for the Use of the Higher Classes in Common Schools”, p.154

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• If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

  Rollo May

  Depression, Ideas, Creating

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

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• That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

  Roger Zelazny

  Don't Trust, Betray

  "The Chronicles of Amber: Knight of Shadows". Book by Roger Zelazny, Chapter 3 (p. 63), 1989.

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• All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

  Martin Luther

  Betrayal, Looks, Should

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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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• When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Betrayal, Self Improvement, Betraying Friends

  Interviewed in the New York Times Magazine, 3 December 1978.

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• I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Deceived, Has Beens

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• Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Nature, Betrayal

  William Wordsworth (1985). “William Wordsworth: The Pedlar, Tintern Abbey, the Two-Part Prelude”, p.39, Cambridge University Press

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• Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

  Sidney Hook

  Betrayal, Cost, Hook

  Sidney Hook, Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovskiĭ, Paul Hollander (1987). “Soviet hypocrisy and Western gullibility”

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• I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

  Cao Cao

  Betrayal, World, Kingdoms

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• Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.

  Kate Millett

  Mother, Committed, Felt

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• To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.

  Kim Campbell

  Giving Up, Betrayal, Ambition

  Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

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• Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

  Jean Genet

  Betrayal, Ecstasy, Knows

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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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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• Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Betrayal, Tolerance, Want

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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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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• All a man can betray is his conscience.

  Joseph Conrad

  Betrayal, Men, Betraying Friends

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Joseph Conrad: The Complete Novels [Nostromo, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, etc.] (Book House)”, p.1449, Book House

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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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• Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Betrayal, Betray, Transmit

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.10, Schocken

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• We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.

  Vicente Fox

  Change, Betrayal, Accomplished

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• Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

  Ovid

  Betrayal, Guilt, Looks

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• Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people, except a very rare few who will always be thin.

  Suzanne Somers

  People, Perfect, Age

  Interview with Cheri Sicard, fabulousfoods.com. August 6, 2007.

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• Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.

  Mineko Iwasaki

  Sad, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

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• All has been looted, betrayed, sold;
  black death's wing flashed ahead.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Wings, Black, Has Beens

  "Looted". Poem by Anna Akhmatova, 1921.

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