Quotes about Betrayed (262 quotes)

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. Votes: 4

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart. Votes: 4

Margaret Cho

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If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. Votes: 4

Rollo May

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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. Votes: 3

Mahatma Gandhi

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Not to transmit an experience is to betray it. Votes: 3

Elie Wiesel

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Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. Votes: 3

William Wordsworth

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Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't. Votes: 3

Judy Holliday

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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. Votes: 3

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me. Votes: 3

Cao Cao

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Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy. Votes: 3

David Frum

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But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread. Votes: 3

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself. Votes: 3

Livy

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We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far. Votes: 3

Vicente Fox

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In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. Votes: 3

Charles de Gaulle

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Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die. Votes: 3

John Piper

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He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself. Votes: 3

Theodor Adorno

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All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself Votes: 3

Martin Luther

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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country. Votes: 3

E. M. Forster

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I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul. Votes: 3

Elia Kazan

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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. Votes: 3

James Madison

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I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again. Votes: 3

Elie Wiesel

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My first novel was called 'Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald,' about the difficulties of graduating from college, the longing and mourning you feel when all your promise seems to float away. Votes: 3

Ron Carlson

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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. Votes: 3

John Dryden

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If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to. Votes: 3

John Mellencamp

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Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we're tired of hearing promises that we know they'll never keep. Votes: 3

Ray Davies

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Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive. Votes: 3

Sidney Hook

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Betrayed and wronged in everything, I'll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I'll be free to have an honest heart. - MoliÃ¨re, The Misanthrope Votes: 3

Moliere

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When you Love.. you Expect.. Once u start Expecting.. u have Hope.. Hopes in return makes you to put Trust.. and Trust makes u prone to Betrayal.. and whn u r Betrayed.. Hell falls over U...!!! Votes: 3

Abhijeet Sawant

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Betrayed' starts off with Shane Gallagher rescuing Elena Reyes and a group of hostages from a madman with a gun. And as the story progresses and Shane's feelings for Elena blossom, his urge to protect her grows. Votes: 3

Ruth Glick

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Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. Votes: 3

Joseph Story

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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third. Votes: 3

Sarah Bernhardt

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Ten years ago she split the air To seize what she could spy Tonight she bumps against a chair, Betrayed by milky eye. She seems to pant, Time up, time up! My little dog must die, And lie in dust with Hector's pup; I So, presently, must I. Votes: 3

Ogden Nash

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Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. Votes: 1

Henry Adams

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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs. Votes: 1

Edmond de Goncourt

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I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life. Votes: 1

Taylor Caldwell

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The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike. Votes: 1

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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I don't read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland. Votes: 1

Vladimir Putin

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Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach. Votes: 1

Shania Twain

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Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. Votes: 1

Ambrose Bierce

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Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter. Votes: 1

Harry Houdini

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The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change. Votes: 1

Al Gore

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Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you. Votes: 1

Sun Myung Moon

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I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me. Votes: 1

Amy Tan

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Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us. Votes: 1

Tim Jackson

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Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them. Votes: 1

Brigitte Bardot

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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? Votes: 1

Federico Fellini

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History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing. Votes: 1

Michael Moritz

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The month of Ramadan is the world's most widespread fast and yet its teachings are minimised, neglected and even betrayed (through literal application of rules that overlooks their ultimate objective). Votes: 1

Tariq Ramadan

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Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people, except a very rare few who will always be thin. Votes: 1

Suzanne Somers

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But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices. Votes: 1

King Albert II

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I think all women have a friend who at some point dumped them or betrayed them or deeply disappointed them. And at the same time all women have a friend who they dumped or betrayed or hurt in some way. That's universal in women's friendships. Votes: 1

Lisa See

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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed. Votes: 1

Alan Alda

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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane. Votes: 1

Eddie Vedder

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Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged me, I have learned from these incidents. We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference. Votes: 1

Amisha Patel

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I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 A.M. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. Votes: 1

Joan Didion

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Secret guilt by silence is betrayed. Votes: 0

John Dryden

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I feel betrayed by own mother. Votes: 0

Aaron Carter

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Silence never yet betrayed any one! Votes: 0

Antoine Rivarol

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Loyalty expanded is not loyalty betrayed! Votes: 0

E. B. Farnum

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I betrayed Gutenberg for McLuhan long ago. Votes: 0

Chris Marker

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A generation of children has been betrayed. Votes: 0

William Hague

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No-one is ever betrayed by true love. Votes: 0

Jaufre Rudel

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And the crowd often betrayed the people Votes: 0

Tariq Ramadan

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We are betrayed by what is false within Votes: 0

George Meredith

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Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals. Votes: 0

Doris Lessing

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The family of Dane Heggem has been betrayed. Votes: 0

Robert Stephens

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To love without criticism is to be betrayed. Votes: 0

Djuna Barnes

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Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old. Votes: 0

Pearl S. Buck

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Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed Votes: 0

Jay McInerney

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Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people. Votes: 0

Les Lye

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children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people Votes: 0

Leslye Walton

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A dog trusts deeply and so is easily betrayed. Votes: 0

Charlotte Gray

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In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed. Votes: 0

George William Russell

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One cannot be betrayed if one has no people. Votes: 0

Takeru Kobayashi

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If I am cheated or betrayed, I will react. Votes: 0

Velupillai Prabhakaran

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Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice. Votes: 0

Ken Follett

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Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her. Votes: 0

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed. Votes: 0

Willa Cather

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You cannot be betrayed by your enemies, only your friends. Votes: 0

Brian D. Anderson

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There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed. Votes: 0

Maureen Howard

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Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright. Votes: 0

N. K. Jemisin

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I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood Votes: 0

Judas Iscariot

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If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it's ours. Votes: 0

William Dean Howells

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You betrayed me too. I'm just better at it than you. Votes: 0

Jack Bauer

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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors. Votes: 0

Zhu Rongji

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All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead. Votes: 0

Anna Akhmatova

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It's not love that you hate, it's the loved one who betrayed. Votes: 0

Syed Arshad

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I have yet to meet a person who has not felt betrayed. Votes: 0

Caroline Myss

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The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals. Votes: 0

Sydney J. Harris

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That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself. Votes: 0

Roger Zelazny

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When you're betrayed there's a period of shame and then there's always forgiveness. Votes: 0

Amy Poehler

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Larry Silverstein has betrayed the public's trust and that of all New Yorkers. Votes: 0

George Pataki

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It would be unthinkably bad luck to be betrayed by a rumbling stomach. Votes: 0

John Flanagan

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Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again. Votes: 0

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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I've been betrayed a lot of times in life. I think everybody's been. Votes: 0

Meek Mill

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If you can love all who've betrayed you... you can taste sweetness in everything. Votes: 0

Holly Lynn Payne

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[Barack] Obama has betrayed Israel, gutted the military, and apologized on ten world tours. Votes: 0

Marco Rubio

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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most. Votes: 0

Kate Millett

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It is less painful, it turns out, to feel betrayed than to feel forgotten. Votes: 0

Stephen Grosz

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I trusted him. I put what was precious in Haymitch's hands. & he has betrayed me Votes: 0

Suzanne Collins

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Jared Kushner has sort of betrayed the Democratic roots that his family grew up in. Votes: 0

Sarah Ellison

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Sometimes when things you love get really commercial, you end up feeling betrayed by it. Votes: 0

Gwyneth Paltrow

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Every Warrior of the Light has, at some time in the past, lied or betrayed someone. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed. Votes: 0

Charles Peguy

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how hard you worked for what you wanted. how cruelly fate betrayed you in the end. Votes: 0

Lauren Kate

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Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine Votes: 0

Baroness Orczy

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Your penis betrayed you, son. Made you think stupid. It won't be the last time that happens. Votes: 0

Justin Halpern

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He is extremely loyal to his friends, but he is tougher than anyone if he feels betrayed. Votes: 0

Ivanka Trump

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In order to protect the honour of her motherland, she had betrayed the trust of her mother. Votes: 0

Debajani Mohanty

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A great nation betrayed the principles which have made it great, and thereby became hostage to hostage-takers. Votes: 0

Daniel Inouye

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You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies. Votes: 0

Alice Hoffman

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We must face the appalling fact that we have been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Parties. Votes: 0

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny. Votes: 0

Friedrich Durrenmatt

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If you're betrayed, release disappointment at once.By that way, the bitterness has no time to take root. Votes: 0

Toba Beta

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Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart. Votes: 0

bell hooks

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Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns. Votes: 0

Seneca the Younger

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I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed. Votes: 0

Peter Schjeldahl

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When a man leaves his mistress, he runs the risk of being betrayed two or three times daily. Votes: 0

Stendhal

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I shall never eat duck again. I cannot believe I used to like duck. The duck betrayed me. Votes: 0

Cassandra Clare

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I feel sick and disempowered, betrayed, angry and crushed by the corruption of all that I know is right. Votes: 0

Chris Packham

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There is no hate such as that born out of love betrayed- and my brain screamed out for revenge. Votes: 0

Virginia C. Andrews

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If someone hurt you, abandoned you, betrayed you..it says nothing about your meaningfulness but everything about their character. Votes: 0

Krystal

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One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool. Votes: 0

Dhani Harrison

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Here Shock, the pride of all his kind, is laid, Who fawned like man, but ne'er like man betrayed. Votes: 0

John Gay

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I do not feel betrayed. ... He has a fine record. He is a national hero. (On Oliver L North's work) Votes: 0

Ronald Reagan

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God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you. Votes: 0

Noah Levine

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If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed. Votes: 0

Mordecai Richler

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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers. Votes: 0

Bela Lugosi

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Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed. Votes: 0

Ian Mcewan

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Through this world I've stumbled, so many times betrayed, trying to find an honest word, to find the truth enslaved. Votes: 0

Sarah McLachlan

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Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world. Votes: 0

Glen Duncan

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Regardless of who has betrayed you and what promises they didnât keep- God is firm in His commitment to you. Votes: 0

Beth Moore

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In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. Votes: 0

George Meredith

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The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners. Votes: 0

Edmund Spenser

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I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours. Votes: 0

Horace Walpole

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It was the stop that happened when you made up your mind to confess, but your mouth betrayed you in the end. Votes: 0

Maggie Stiefvater

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My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side. Votes: 0

Fred D'Aguiar

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The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you're knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering? Votes: 0

Jack Kornfield

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To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them. Votes: 0

Charles Palliser

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She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her. Votes: 0

Philippa Gregory

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George Eliot has the heart of Sappho; but the face, with the long proboscis, the protruding teeth of the Apocalyptic horse, betrayed animality. Votes: 0

George Meredith

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We were made to believe / our faces betrayed us. / Our bodies were loud / with yellow / screaming flesh / needing to be silenced / behind barbed wire. Votes: 0

Janice Mirikitani

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Elednor,' he said, 'Elednor, why have you betrayed me? Come back to me. Come back to were you belong. I alone need you... Votes: 0

Alison Croggon

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The cross of Christ exists because mankind-loved by God, created by God, set in motion by God-betrayed God and prefers his stuff to him. Votes: 0

Matt Chandler

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It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And itâs lonely, because you feel you canât talk about it. Votes: 0

David Levithan

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There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us... Votes: 0

Pablo Picasso

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Eyes watching always Shadows in shadows they wait A black feather falls First accepted, loved Then betrayed-spit in the face Vengeance sweet like dots. Votes: 0

P. C. Cast

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I would like to thank the people who've brought me those dark moments, when I felt most wounded, betrayed. You have been my greatest teachers. Votes: 0

Oprah Winfrey

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To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband! Votes: 0

Samuel Richardson

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There is no shame in confusion or fear. "There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. . . . It was the silence that betrayed us." Votes: 0

Barack Obama

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In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed. Votes: 0

George William Russell

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Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness. Votes: 0

Rutherford B. Hayes

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Daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of the promises of heaven. Votes: 0

Saint Patrick

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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) Votes: 0

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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All of us must act selfishly to Iearn charity, must lie to learn honor, must betray and be betrayed to learn to value trust and commitment. Votes: 0

Bill Vaughan

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Western intellectual Islamologists have totally failed in their duties as intellectuals. They have betrayed their calling by abandoning their critical faculties when it comes to Islam. Votes: 0

Wafa Sultan

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I am betrayed and played but right now im feeling nothing pain but to forgive, it's because I love God too much that I can't hate. Votes: 0

AKA

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Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to us to practice? Votes: 0

Pema Chodron

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I have, he went on, betrayed myself withbelief, deluded myself with lovetricked myself with sex.the bottle is damned faithful, he said,the bottle will not lie Votes: 0

Charles Bukowski

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Heads will fly all over the place, others will explode by themselves, everyone will have their chance to betray, and those who don't betray will be betrayed. Votes: 0

Sandro Veronesi

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If a heart becomes attached to anything other than Allah, Allah makes him dependent on what he is attached to. And he will be betrayed by it. Votes: 0

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

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The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical. . . . Any man who for one moment abandons or suspends the questioning spirit has for that moment betrayed humanity. Votes: 0

Bergen Evans

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Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that, 'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy, We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed. Votes: 0

William Wordsworth

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A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged thinking. I know that, but that doesn't stop you feeling it. Votes: 0

Joyce Carol Oates

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Because i've suffered. Because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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Here I had a wonderful man who cared for me and I was screwing around with a self-absorbed, conniving monster who'd betrayed me in the worst possible way. Votes: 0

Kelley Armstrong

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If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache.... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation. Votes: 0

Anton Chekhov

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Releasing the invisible ties to those who have left you, betrayed you, disappointed you or hurt you, you open up to higher realms of love, peace and joy. Votes: 0

Debbie Ford

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[Larry Kramer] said, when it was all about to fall through, "You betrayed me, Calvin." And I said, "I resent that. I was against you from the beginning." Votes: 0

Kevin Sessums

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each time that I have run away - and from a habit it quickly became an illness - I have betrayed someone. Myself, but not always only myself. Votes: 0

Storm Jameson

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By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers turned the living word into dead law. Votes: 0

Ursula K. Le Guin

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I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance [EMA], trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people. Votes: 0

Harriet Harman

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In reality, when you feel depressed, lonely, betrayed, or any unwanted feelings, this is an important moment on the spiritual path. This is when real transformation can take place. Votes: 0

Pema Chodron

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One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope. Votes: 0

Steven Deitz

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Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation? Votes: 0

Barry Lopez

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One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope. Votes: 0

Steven Dietz

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And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends. Votes: 0

Stephen Crane

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Love does not fail for you when you are rejected, betrayed or apparently not Loved. Love fails for you when you reject, betray and do not love. Therefore .. Love. Votes: 0

Adi Da

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For the first 10 years of my life in Congress, I had been too timid to tell the truth as I saw it. In a way I had betrayed my trust. Votes: 0

Emanuel Celler

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Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government? Votes: 0

Richard J. Daley

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His movements were so graceful that I wondered if he had been a dancer, but his words betrayed to me that his fluid gestures were those of a trained killer. Votes: 0

Maria V. Snyder

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On the night He was betrayed Jesus broke bread and lifted it up and gave THANKS. If Jesus can give thanks in that, can we not give thanks in all? Votes: 0

Ann Voskamp

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The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil Votes: 0

Margaret Atwood

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As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated. Votes: 0

Ada Leverson

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We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and being betrayed by our friends, yet we are often content in be being treated like that by our own selves. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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I feel sad for him. Sad for the boy bound to the killer. I am sad for the youth betrayed by their leaders for symbols and flags and war and power. Votes: 0

Susan Abulhawa

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I believe my friends and neighbors there are misguided. I think they are not going to get what they hoped for. But they feel betrayed by the Democratic and Republican establishment. Votes: 0

Tucker Carlson

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I felt betrayed by him, extremely betrayed. He made me believe that if I followed a certain protocol of supplements and different drugs that I could become number 1 in the world. Votes: 0

Kelli White

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We are all too keenly aware that those of you who supported us by purchasing the 3DS in the beginningmay feel betrayed and criticize this decision [to cut the console's price]" Votes: 0

Satoru Iwata

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When you feel betrayed by someone that you trust the most, as an actor, you look for something that's going to let you express some of your inner emotions and anger. Votes: 0

Terrence Howard

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An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed. Votes: 0

Max Planck

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I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity. Votes: 0

Emile M. Cioran

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The trust that I once built has been betrayed. But I'd rather live tellin' the truth and be judged for my mistakes, than falsely held up, given props, loved and praised. Votes: 0

Macklemore

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(George Bush) betrayed this country! He played on our fears. He took America on an ill-conceived foreign adventure dangerous to our troops, an adventure preordained and planned before 9/11 ever took place! Votes: 0

Al Gore

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All the money was spent for the 'Concept Plan' document, which made reasonable recommendations for developments. Now that's kind of being forgotten. That's why I think the public trust is being betrayed. Votes: 0

Stephen F. Hayes

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In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon turned out to be a spineless, grinning idiot. Votes: 0

Ian Mcewan

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You need a lot of things in any organization, but one of the critical things is trust. When you lose trust and you feel betrayed, and it's not a matter of judgment. Votes: 0

Arthur Blank

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You did not so much mind being -conventionally- betrayed, if you were not kept in the dark, which was humiliating, or defined only as a wife and dependent person, which was annihilating. Votes: 0

A. S. Byatt

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It is over, the Reich walls have collapsed, my generals have betrayed me and my army refuses to fight, this is the herr Doernitz! I only hope you can turn this around. Votes: 0

Adolf Hitler

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By and large, our political system has betrayed its promise to each new generation of Filipinos, not a few of whom are voting with their feet, going abroad and leaving that system behind. Votes: 0

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

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Sixty-five months into Bush's presidency, conservatives feel betrayed The main cause of conservatives' anger with Bush is this: He talked like a conservative to win our votes but never governed like a conservative. Votes: 0

Richard Viguerie

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America has been betrayed. We've been betrayed by the leadership that Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton have provided to this country over the last number of years. Think about just what's happened today. Votes: 0

Chris Christie

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A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting publicly his innermost feelings. Votes: 0

Nelson Algren

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Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Jared glared balefully at the old man, his eyes full of the shock and pain of the betrayed. I had only human comparisons for such a look. Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas. Votes: 0

Stephenie Meyer

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[The Jews] tried to kill the principles of all religions with the same mentality in which they betrayed Jesus Christ and the same way they tried to betray and kill the Prophet Muhammad. Votes: 0

Bashar al-Assad

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She hadn't lied. She hadn't betrayed anyone's trust; still, she felt she had done something wrong. Or rather, she had not yet done the right thing. Was there a difference between these two sins? Votes: 0

Michael David Lukas

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Women react differently: a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress; an Italian will kill her husband; a Spaniard will kill both; and a German will kill herself. Votes: 0

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

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He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time. Votes: 0

Khaled Hosseini

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Women react differently a French woman who sees herself betrayed by her husband will kill his mistress;an Italian will kill her husband a Spaniard will kill both and a German will kill herself Votes: 0

Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle

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We are not wounded so deeply when betrayed by the things we hope for as when betrayed by things we try our best to despise. In such betrayal comes the dagger in the back. Votes: 0

Yukio Mishima

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When the going is good and the putts are dropping, you love your putter. When it's going bad, it's like it has betrayed you and you want to throw the sucker in a lake. Votes: 0

Ken Green

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One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or, worse still, when one betrays them does one realize their power. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Bowen

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If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that witches are often betrayed by their appetites; dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts can be well-hidden, and you can betray them with your tongue. (from "Instructions") Votes: 0

Neil Gaiman

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