Quotes with betray

  • Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
  • They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
  • Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.

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  • William Wordsworth Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Oscar Wilde Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Germaine Greer Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • E. M. Forster 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
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • George Orwell It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • William Penn Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Samuel Johnson Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Abraham Cowley Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Noam Chomsky The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to ''Americanize'' him.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Joseph Conrad They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
    Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997) p. 332
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Publilius Syrus To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • David Gemmell Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray you.
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • William Hazlitt Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
    Table-Talk (1824)
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Anita Brookner You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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