Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel de Montaigne

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

Lisa Kleypas

I realized I wasn't going to find a man until I was willing to expose myself to possible harm, to assume the risks of rejection and betrayal and heartbreak that came along with caring about someone. Someday, I promised myself, I would be ready for that kind of risk.

John Updike

There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.

John Updike

All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.

Milan Kundera

Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

Khaled Hosseini

He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.

Henry Taylor

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

John Osborne

You see I learnt at an early age what it was to be angry - angry and helpless. And I can never forget it. I knew more about - love... betrayal... and death, when I was ten years old than you will probably ever know in your life.

John Mills

As a rule, panics do not destroy capital; they merely reveal the extent to which it has been destroyed by its betrayal into hopelessly unproductive works.

John Calvin

Surely in Judas' betrayal it will be no more right, because God both willed that his Son be delivered up, and delivered him up to death, to ascribe the guilt of the crime to God than to transfer the credit for redemption to Judas.

Joan Didion

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.

John Barth

To turn experience into speech - that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it - is always a betrayal of experience, a falsification of it; but only so betrayed can it be dealt with at all, and only in so dealing with it did I ever feel a man, alive and kicking.

Lauren Conrad

Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

Juliet Marillier

I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture.

Joyce Carol Oates

Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.

Livy

A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.

Loretta Lynch

The verdicts today should send the message that within the police department there is no greater betrayal of the badge and of the brotherhood than to ensnare another officer in a web of lies and deceit.

Mahatma Gandhi

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery.

Emile M. Cioran

A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice.

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.

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.