Best 183 quotes in «betrayed quotes» category

Love does not last forever, then?" "He asked me the same thing this morning," she said. "No, it does not - not love that has been betrayed. One realizes that one has loved a mirage, someone who never really existed. Not that love dies immediately or soon, even then. But it does die and cannot be revived.

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

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.

Loyalty expanded is not loyalty betrayed!

Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall.

Miss Grantham's sense of humour got the better of her at this point, and, tottering towards a chair, she sank into it, exclaiming in tragic accents:'Oh Heavens! I am betrayed!' His lordship blenched; both he and miss Laxton regarded her with guilty dismay. Miss Grantham buried her face in her handkerchief, and uttered one shattering word: 'Wretch!

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

No-one is ever betrayed by true love.

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

One cannot be betrayed if one has no people.

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

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

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

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

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.

Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her.

People know when they've betrayed themselves. They are very much aware when they are not honest with themselves. They hear the voice that says, "You shouldn't have said that" or "You know that's not right.

Regardless of who has betrayed you and what promises they didn’t keep- God is firm in His commitment to you.

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

She raised her head finally. He looked the same, but then, he always did. She'd seem him kill twice, and he betrayed no reaction at all. He was a monster, not even human. But he was her monster.

Rulers are no more than attorneys, agents, and trustees, for the people; and if the cause, the interest and trust, is insidiously betrayed, or wantonly trifled away, the people have a right to revoke the authority that they themselves have deputed, and to constitute abler and better agents, attorneys, and trustees.

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

Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.

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

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.

Silence never yet betrayed any one!

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

The metaphysical apologia at least betrayed the injustice of the established order through the incongruence of concept and reality. The impartiality of scientific language deprived what was powerless of the strength to make itself heard and merely provided the existing order with a neutral sign for itself. Such neutrality is more metaphysical than metaphysics.

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

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

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

[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.

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

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

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.

The mantra of the new historicists was "we have betrayed ourselves." Since their emergence, there have been more or less interesting paradigm shifts having mainly to do with Habermas and the increased focus on media studies, but the talismanic word has never ceased to be "history.

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).

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

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

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.

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

Today I feel more betrayed than perhaps ever before, that someone who had got to know my children, my staff and me, whom I let into my heart and told the truth, could then sacrifice the trust I placed in him and produce this terrible and unfair program.

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

To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight - it suggests at least a grand Hollywood-ready confrontation between good and evil - but to be coldly ripped off over and over again by a bunch of bloodless, second-rate schmoes, schmoes you chose, you elected, is not something anyone will take much pleasure in bragging about.

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

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal.

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!