Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trusting her to no one else; that others should know and love her in her present fallen state (for she must fall without our vigilant love) is a species of betrayal.

Pierre Corneille

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

Terry Eagleton

Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments of capital. Confronted with this squalid betrayal, one imagines he would have felt sick and oppressed.

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.

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.

Juliet Marillier

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

a stunning betrayal of their shields, their colleagues and the citizens they were sworn to protect.

Bruce Schneier

It's a huge betrayal of the public trust, and they know it.

David Sedaris

The fake slap invariably makes contact, adding the elements of shock and betrayal to what had previously been plain old-fashioned fear.

David McCullough

History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness. There are monsters, there is evil, there is betrayal. That's why people should read Shakespeare and Dickens as well as history ~~ they will find the best, the worst, the height of noble attainment and the depths of depravity.

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

Even the wealthiest professional woman can be "brought down" by being in a relationship where she longs to be loved and is consistently lied to. To the degree that she trusts her male companion, lying and other forms of betrayal will most likely shatter her self-confidence and self-esteem.