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Tag Name "Betray" (383)

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Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.
Aesop
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Betray mean terror of ridicule, thou shalt find fools enough to mock thee but answer thou their language with contempt, and the scoffers will lick thy feet.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
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Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.
Horace
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Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.
William Wordsworth
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In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear.
Henri Nouwen
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Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy.
Winifred Holtby
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To totalitarianism, an opponent is by definition subversive democracy treats subversives as mere opponents for fear of betraying its principles.
Jean Francois Revel
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Nothing more strikingly betrays the credulity of mankind than medicine. Quackery is a thing universal, and universally successful. In this case it becomes literally true that no imposition is too great for the credulity of men.
Henry David Thoreau
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But even if you should betray me, I will forgive you.
Yun Kouga
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We all get betrayed or we all betray. Life is so complex that it's almost impossible to avoid that. Betrayal is also a critical theme in all the world's great stories. If Christ had not been betrayed, would you have had the resurrection?
Jean Houston
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A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky.
Henry David Thoreau
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We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
Vicente Fox
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A single word often betrays a great design.
Jean Racine
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If someone betrays you once, it is his fault. If he betrays you twice, it is your fault. Blessed are those who can laugh at themselves, they will never cease to be amused. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Henry Ford
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Fear betrays unworthy souls.
Virgil
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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
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The functionaries of our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted - or rather tend to be corrupted - by the conditions of capitalism and betray a tendency to become bureaucrats, i.e., privileged persons divorced from the people and standing above the people.
Vladimir Lenin
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Virtue and sense are one and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.
John Armstrong
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Kind messages, that pass from land to land Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand,-- One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
Walter Benjamin
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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 Dryden
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
Hippocrates
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