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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
US (Polish-born) Jewish author (1904 - 1991)

The shah always falls in the end, Saddam always turns on you, and the Saudis always betray you. If we support evil, the long-term price is almost always too high.

Lt. Col. (Ret.) Ralph Peters, Interview in American Heritage

Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.

Thomas Fuller
English clergyman & historian (1608 - 1661)

Their Oath shall drive them, and yet betray them, and ever snatch away the very treasures that they have sworn to pursue.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Mandos, The Silmarillion, Of the Flight of the Noldor
British scholar & fantasy novelist (1892 - 1973)

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

E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
British novelist (1879 - 1970)

If someone betrays you once, it?s their fault; if they betray you twice, it?s your fault.

Eleanor Roosevelt
US diplomat & reformer (1884 - 1962)

All a man can betray is his conscience.

Joseph Conrad
English (Polish-Ukrainian-born) novelist (1857 - 1924)

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

Forster

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978
US (Polish-born) Jewish author (1904 - 1991)

There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness, and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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