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Oh, time betrays us. Time is the great enemy ...
— Winifred Holtby
Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.
— Walter Raleigh
But passion most dissembles, yet betrays, Even by its darkness; as the blackest sky Foretells the heaviest tempest. Don Juan, I. 73
— Stendhal
The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.
— Francis Bacon
If he betrays you, I will finish what I started with his fingers," he said, and I shivered. "Tell him that.
— Kim Harrison
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.
— Paul De Man
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl Of Chesterfield
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
— Edmund Burke
Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The shy little Mayflower weaves her nest, But the south wind sighs o'er the fragrant loam, And betrays the path to her woodland home.
— Sarah Helen Whitman
It is most true, stylus virum arguit, - our style betrays us.
— Robert A. Burton
Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.
— Greil Marcus
79. A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
If like fcuks you hard, you fcuk her more harder. If she betrays, put little bit more effort and she will be dead flat.
— Santosh Kalwar
Ford Motor Company's sluggish and piecemeal approach to its automotive responsibilities betrays motorists' safety.
— Ralph Nader
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays
— Francis Bacon
Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.
— Edward Weston
Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.
— Jean Racine
The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
— Seneca The Younger
Who betrays whom first.
— Susan Dennard
The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
— Charles Caleb Colton
When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.
— Simone Weil
Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.
— Bruno Schulz
He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character.
— Leonard Cohen
He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.
— Theodor Adorno
The friendly preacher who fails to warn of the reality of Hell, betrays the Son of God with a kiss.
— Ray Comfort
If someone betrays you once, it's their fault; if they betray you twice, it's your fault.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
No one betrays us as much in our lives as we betray ourselves.
— Barbara De Angelis
Somehow is a super-weasel, a word that betrays that the author didn't want to bother thinking out the story - "Somehow
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Honesty is a heart that betrays itself for a dream, a moment, a kiss.
— Shannon L. Alder
A good book is a true friend who never betrays.
— Debasish Mridha
It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.
— Barack Obama
To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage ...
— Louisa May Alcott
Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it.
— Thomas Jefferson
All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave ...
— Eric Clapton
We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.
— Learned Hand
The fuel of ambition is not the problem; it is the focus of ambition that frees or betrays us.
— Erwin Raphael McManus
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
— Confucius
Language betrays,
in order to mean. — Terence McKenna
in order to mean. — Terence McKenna
Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.
— Joseph Addison
You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it's not always your heart that betrays you.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution.
— Mahatma Gandhi
If he can give us the Stormcrows, surprise is certain"
"And if he betrays you, suprise is lost. — George R R Martin
"And if he betrays you, suprise is lost. — George R R Martin
Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.
— Jeanette Winterson
[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.
— Edward Gibbon
America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I'd rather be America's enemy.
— Ahmed Chalabi
The hand betrays the heart ...
— Louise Imogen Guiney
We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The present necessarily betrays the past.
— Mason Cooley
Love always betrays its intentions.
— Marthe Bibesco
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.
— Anton Chekhov
Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays.
— L.M. Montgomery
Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.
— Margaret Atwood
I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.
— Richard E. Grant
Our nemesis is time, against which we have a single ally, memory, and even it betrays us.
— Sam Tanenhaus
A single word often betrays a great design.
— Jean Racine
This is the one who betrays Forerunners, their own greatest monster. We know this one. Remember?
— Greg Bear
When a man losses faith he betrays a hero
— Elizabeth J. Kolodziej
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
— Confucius
The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.
— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Virtue and sense are one; and, trust me, still A faithless heart betrays the head unsound.
— John Armstrong
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.
— Sara Gruen
A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
— Sophocles
The big house and the nice suits and the other things that our money culture says you should buy ... betrays a poverty of ambition.
— Barack Obama
As soon as a work of art is of practical use, betrays a purpose or a tendency its beauty vanishes.
— August Strindberg
Love never betrays. People do.
— Rohit Sharma
A real politician, and these were real politicians, never betrays his country to an outsider. He betrays it to himself. He is the enemy within.
— Guy Endore
It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this.
— Steve Albini
Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
— Erica Jong