Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

A single word often betrays a great design.

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.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.

Husbands are chiefly good lovers when they are betraying their wives.

Silence is a friend who will never betray.

To betray you must first belong.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

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

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within.

You, betrayed by time and space, Seek and find your proper place.

Fidelity. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.

If someone betrays you once it is their fault, if someone betrays you twice it is your fault.

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work)

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at the bottom comes up.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue.

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable; yet by ourselves we are often content to be so treated.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

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.

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

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?

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.

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence.

The shah always falls in the end, Saddam always turns on you, and the Saudis always betray you. If we support evil, the long-term price is almost always too high.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says ''What would I do without you?'' is already destroyed.

Every civilizaiton must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscience intention of the collectivity. (Tleilaxu Theorem);"Frank Herbert

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.

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.

We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

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.

In the aftermath of betrayal, we often have to struggle to maintain our grip on reality. survival requires a source of self-respect, self-awareness, and self-honesty. we have to find a balance point before reaching out again.

To bemoan the messiness of politics is not just a folly it betrays a dangerous impatience with basic realities. It is like becoming disturbed that people do not fall in love sensibly -- and so deciding to computerize the problem.