Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Conrad

It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.

Joseph Conrad

All a man can betray is his conscience.

Kate Mosse

There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.

Lars von Trier

The risk is that you furnish the project with new suggestions to try and freshen it up; it's not always beneficial. You risk betraying the original intention with the story, forgetting what it is you really want to portray.

Paul Valery

Fidelity to meaning alone in translation is a kind of betrayal.

Pierre Corneille

Rome, if you do not wish me to betray you, make enemies that I can hate!

Richard Branson

I believe that drudgery and clock-watching are a terrible betrayal of that universal, inborn entrepreneurial spirit.

Roger Zelazny

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

Sean Hannity

There's a reason [Donald]Trump and [Ted] Cruz are one and two and that they take nearly 50 percent of the Republican electorate away in these polls because there's real palpable anger out there and frustration and a feeling of betrayal.

Neil LaBute

I felt, if I'm going to take on some of the most overdone material, which is men and women and affairs and betrayal of friends, I had better have a new take on it. I think my films come from a desperation not to be boring.

Terry Tempest Williams

The moment Eve bit into the apple, her eyes opened and she became free. She exposed the truth of what every woman knows: to find our sovereign voice often requires a betrayal.

Marc Jacobs

To be useful to others and to be useful to myself is definitely a better place to be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.

Tony Blair

We fall for... the theories of betrayal very easily, and one of the things that's always depressed me about the left, ever since I started in politics, is their ability to imbibe the propaganda of the right and regurgitate it to the left.

Hiroyuki Sanada

I saw a lot of 47 Ronin on the TV, in the films, and I've done Chushingura Gaiden Yotsuya Kaidan [Crest of Betrayal, 1994] directed by Kinji Fukasaku.

Hilarie Burton

For me, I always wonder what's worse: an emotional betrayal or a physical betrayal? That's a really tough call.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.

Joaquin Miller

O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first to repent and regret.

Han Suyin

with some people there is such a thing as the habit of betrayal ...

Gilbert K. Chesterton

An artist will betray himself by some sort of sincerity.

John Dryden

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

John Lithgow

I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf. I need some good writing, Alive and exciting, To contemplate all by myself. I need a good novel, I need a good read. I probably need Two or three. I need a good tale Of love and betrayal Or perhaps an adventure at sea. I need a good saga. I need a good yarn. A momentous and mightily Or slight one. But with thousands and thousands And thousands of books, I need someone to tell me The right one. -John Lithgow

Philip Pullman

Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth.

Ralph Steadman

The betrayal of people's good will, good trust that things are being done for the best and they actually ARE being done for the best.

Ralph Steadman

You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

Pema Chodron

When we touch the center of sorrow, when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to the pain of disapproval or betrayal and let it soften us, these are times that we connect with bohdichitta.

Thomas Jefferson

Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it.

Taylor Caldwell

I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

Taylor Caldwell

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

Tupac Shakur

The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal.

Tori Amos

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

Raymond E. Feist

The issue of the Betrayal was so central to that, I felt the need to comment upon it. My choices were to ignore the games and put them 'outside' of continuity or to integrate them. I chose the latter.

Richard Russo

If my career continues along its current arc, people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor, even when they don't mean to.