Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmond de Goncourt

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

Charles Hazlewood

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

Robert Torricelli

as close to a betrayal of the interests of the United States as I've ever witnessed in the United States Congress. It's unforgivable and reprehensible.

The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work

This is a profoundly disappointing text and a betrayal of development promises by rich countries whose interests have prevailed yet again.

Arthur Koestler

The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this temptation, from Spartacus to Danton and Dostoevsky; they are the classical form of betrayal of the cause. The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. As long as chaos dominates the world, God is an anachronism; and every compromise with one’s own conscience is perfidy. When the accursed inner voice speaks to you, hold your hands over your ears….

Brad Meltzer

I understand pain. I've lived with pain my entire life. But pain is nothing compared to betrayal. And betrayal is nothing compared to knowing that the javelin in your back was rammed there by the one person in your life you actually trusted.

bell hooks

While privacy strengthens all our bonds, secrecy weakens and damages connection. Lerner points out that we do not usually "know the emotional costs of keeping a secret" until the truth is disclosed. Usually, secrecy involves lying. And lying is always the setting for potential betrayal and violation of trust.

Coco Chanel

For a woman betrayal has no sense - one cannot betray one's passions.

Billy Campbell

Many who wave American flags also practice discrimination on the basis of race. Many who wave American flags practice anti-Semitism. We think that betrays the fundamental ideals of our democracy.

Edward Abbey

I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.

Gore Vidal

Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.

Bob Johnson

Everybody who used to go to the concerts felt betrayed when the series was canceled.

Ernst Toller

Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.

Anthony Minghella

Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.

Alice Meynell

Red has been praised for its nobility of the color of life. But the true color of life is not red. Red is the color of violence, or of life broken open, edited, and published. Or if red is indeed the color of life, it is so only on condition that it is not seen. Once fully visible, red is the color of life violated, and in the act of betrayal and of waste.

Albert Camus

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

Amy Tan

That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.

Thomas Jefferson

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

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.

Vicente Fox

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

Stephen King

But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal.

Taylor Caldwell

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

Sigmund Freud

He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

Steven Pressfield

I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had known in life bound me to them. I felt a sense of inexpressible relief and realized that I had feared, more than death, separation from them. I apprehended that excruciating war survivor's torment, the sense of isolation and self-betrayal experienced by those who had elected to cling yet to breath when their comrades had let loose their grip.

Sue Monk Kidd

Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one's religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep.

Siegfried Sassoon

And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume.

Siegfried Sassoon

And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

And you haven’t been betrayed yet, Nick. You don’t know what that’s like. What it does to you. The scars it leaves that never fade. (Ambrose)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Beware the viper in your closet. Isn’t that another thing you’re always saying, Father? Ambition and jealousy are at the heart of all betrayals. (Ryssa)

Norman Jewison

Betrayal... is my favorite subject.

Theodore Roosevelt

To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States.

Max de Pree

From a leader's perspective, the most serious betrayal has to do with thwarting human potential, with quenching the spirit, with failing to deal equitably with each other as human beings.