Betray

Famous quotes containing the word betray:

“If you betray me, can I take a better revenge than to love the person you hate?”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

“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 (b. 1938)

“The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)