Verraten / Betray Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Verraten / Betray:

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet. Andrew Motion

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

In classic noir fiction and film, it is always hot. Fans whirr in sweltering hotel rooms, sweat forms on a stranger's brow, the muggy air stifles - one can hardly breathe. Come nightfall, there is no relief, only the darkness that allows illicit lovers to meet, the trusted to betray, and murderers to act.

Michael Dirda

Wilson won re-election in 1916, his campaign running on the slogan, 'He kept us out of war.' But he could then betray his anti-war supporters knowing that a rising political coalition - made up, in part, of men looking to redeem a lost war by finding new wars to fight - had his back.

Greg Grandin

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Germaine Greer

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

Michel Houellebecq

Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

Lauren Conrad

The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.

Jurgen Habermas

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.

Joseph Story

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow - that's vulnerability.

Brene Brown

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.

Noam Chomsky

I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.

Andrew Motion

To betray, you must first belong.

Kim Philby

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

Livy

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

Vicente Fox

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.

Jimmy Carter

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

Joseph Conrad

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

Ovid

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

Judy Holliday

To take refuge with an inferior is to betray one's self.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.

Anita Brookner

I treat everyone as a friend, but if they betray me, that's it. They're out of my life in one way or another.

Michael Rosenbaum

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

Oliver Goldsmith

Our love for the Founders leads us to abandon, and even to betray, the very principles they fought for.

H. W. Brands

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.

John Mellencamp

I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

Cao Cao

To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.

Kim Campbell

Instead of playing heroes and righteous people, I'd rather portray characters with problems of conscience who have to lie, to betray, and then have to cope with that. They feel more true to me.

Vincent Cassel

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

Simone Schwarz-Bart

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

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.

Ray Davies

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

John le Carre

I am not unaware that leaders betray, and sell out, and play false.

Mary Harris Jones

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

Michel de Montaigne

You have to respect who the character is. It has its own internal truth, and you can't betray that. And if you don't betray that, it will not betray you.

Theresa Rebeck

Only trust thyself, and another shall not betray thee.

William Penn