Betrayed famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
-- Ada Leverson -
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.
-- Adi Da -
The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.
-- Al Gore -
Elednor,' he said, 'Elednor, why have you betrayed me? Come back to me. Come back to were you belong. I alone need you...
-- Alison Croggon -
All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
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...
-- Anne Stuart -
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.
-- Arthur Blank -
Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine
-- Baroness Orczy -
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
-- Bela Lugosi -
Regardless of who has betrayed you and what promises they didn’t keep- God is firm in His commitment to you.
-- Beth Moore -
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.
-- Brigitte Bardot -
I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
-- Cao Cao -
I have yet to meet a person who has not felt betrayed.
-- Caroline Myss -
September had never been betrayed before. She did not even know what to call the feeling in her chest, so bitter and sour. Poor child. There is always a first time, and it is never the last time.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed.
-- Charles Peguy -
A dog trusts deeply and so is easily betrayed.
-- Charlotte Gray -
Yes, definitely I do feel betrayed, but I've got to take everything that's happened and learn from it. I accept that that's a chapter of my life that's finished. And I've just got to be grateful that I've got so many good things going on. I have.
-- Cheryl Cole -
It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it’s lonely, because you feel you can’t talk about it.
-- David Levithan -
One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.
-- Dhani Harrison -
To love without criticism is to be betrayed.
-- Djuna Barnes -
I would recognise myself in each of his translations and he would feel betrayed and annoyed whenever I didn't write something the way he would have. A part of me died with him, a part of him lives with me.
-- Eduardo Galeano -
If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt -
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.
-- Emanuel Celler -
Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
-- Epictetus -
Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt -
Larry Silverstein has betrayed the public's trust and that of all New Yorkers.
-- George Pataki -
In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.
-- George William Russell -
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.
-- Harriet Harman -
Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter.
-- Harry Houdini -
[Judaism is] ever... mighty in wickedness... when it cursed Moses; when it hated God; when it vowed its sons to demons; when it killed the prophets, and finally when it betrayed to the Praetor and crucified our God Himself and Lord... And so glorying through all its existence in iniquity.
-- Hilary of Poitiers -
I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.
-- Horace Walpole -
Screenwriting is an opportunity to fly first class, be treated like a celebrity, sit around the pool and be betrayed.
-- Ian Mcewan -
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.
-- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya -
Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed
-- Jay McInerney -
Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.
-- John le Carre -
I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood
-- Judas Iscariot -
Lovers have a right to betray you... friends don't.
-- Judy Holliday -
Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
-- Kate Millett -
Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.
-- Ken Follett -
If someone hurt you, abandoned you, betrayed you..it says nothing about your meaningfulness but everything about their character.
-- Krystal -
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
-- Leonardo da Vinci -
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.
-- Lisa See -
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
-- Livy -
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
-- Lord Chesterfield -
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.
-- Macklemore -
It was the stop that happened when you made up your mind to confess, but your mouth betrayed you in the end.
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
I knew they would kill me when they found out, but…†He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. “I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you.
-- Marissa Meyer -
All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself
-- Martin Luther -
We must face the appalling fact that we have been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Parties.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
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.
-- Matt Chandler -
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.
-- Max Planck -
I've been betrayed a lot of times in life. I think everybody's been.
-- Meek Mill -
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.
-- Michael Moritz -
and she realized that she (her soul) was not at all involved, only her body, her body alone. The body that had betrayed her and that she had sent out into the world among other bodies.
-- Milan Kundera -
If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed.
-- Mordecai Richler -
Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.
-- N.K. Jemisin -
God has abandoned you. Fear does not serve you. Your heart has betrayed you. Only the music can guide you.
-- Noah Levine -
Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.
-- Ovid -
Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.
-- Pearl S. Buck -
She was like a mother to me...and I betrayed as a daughter will betray her mother and yet, never stop loving her.
-- Philippa Gregory -
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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.
-- Richard Viguerie -
The family of Dane Heggem has been betrayed.
-- Robert Stephens -
I realized that if I was going to understand the uniqueness and depth of God's love for me, I had to mentally separate my relationships with people from my relationship with the Lord. God's love should never be distorted or diminished by comparing it with the friendship or love of any human who has let me down, rejected me, betrayed me, or lied about me.
-- Robin Jones Gunn -
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.
-- Sandro Veronesi -
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]…
-- Satoru Iwata -
Being betrayed is one of the most valuable lessons life can teach.
-- Shania Twain -
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.
-- Sidney Hook -
Cripple God, who always desires more than he's able to have, and doesn't always realize this to begin with. Who has built clocks, but not the time that they measure. Has built systems or mechanisms that serve particular purposes, but they too have outgrown these purposes and betrayed them. And has created an infinity that, from being the measure of the power he was supposed to have, turned into the measure of his boundless failure.
-- Stanislaw Lem -
It is less painful, it turns out, to feel betrayed than to feel forgotten.
-- Stephen Grosz -
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.
-- Steven Dietz -
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.
-- Storm Jameson -
Pride had kept her running when love had betrayed her.
-- Susan Elizabeth Phillips -
I trusted him. I put what was precious in Haymitch's hands. & he has betrayed me
-- Suzanne Collins -
One cannot be betrayed if one has no people.
-- Takeru Kobayashi -
I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.
-- Taylor Caldwell -
I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.
-- Taylor Caldwell -
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.
-- Terrence Howard -
If we take all this actions and if it turns out not be true, we have reduced pollution and have better ways to live, the downside is very small. The other way around, and we don’t act, and it turns out to be true, then we have betrayed future generations and we don’t have the right to do that.
-- Tony Blair -
We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
-- Vicente Fox -
A generation of children has been betrayed.
-- William Hague -
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.
-- Yukio Mishima -
In life the turn coat (traitor) is never trustworthy by either side. The one that he betrayed will hate him and the other that benefited from his treachery will fear him. After all what is going to stop the "turn coat" from betraying him as well.
-- Artur Pawlowski -
To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.
-- Charles Palliser -
My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side.
-- Fred D'Aguiar -
You betrayed me too. I'm just better at it than you.
-- Jack Bauer -
I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed. There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaithful to the readers. And it's appropriate, because the writer is getting paid and the reader isn't.
-- Jonathan Santlofer -
[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."
-- Kevin Sessums -
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
-- Louis L'Amour -
Jared Kushner has sort of betrayed the Democratic roots that his family grew up in.
-- Sarah Ellison -
When a trust is betrayed, that has to be rebuilt.
-- Tamara Keith
