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

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

- Mary Harris Jones

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

- Livy

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

- Lauren Conrad

To betray, you must first belong.

- Kim Philby

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

- Judy Holliday

If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.

- Jonathan Zittrain

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

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

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

As a creator, I always want to betray fans' expectations.

- Hideo Kojima

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

- Elie Wiesel

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

- Elia Kazan

You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.

- Ed Harris

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

- Dalton Trumbo

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

- Cao Cao

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

- Charles de Gaulle

I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.

- Antony Gormley