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.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage there's no betrayal of trust.

Espionage for the most part involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.

You see that's what I think is such a terrible terrible betrayal the trust that people have in government.

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

I love actors both my parents were actors and the work with actors is the most enjoyable part of making a film. It's important that they feel protected and are confident they won't be betrayed. When you create that atmosphere of trust it's in the bag - the actors will do everything to satisfy you.

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust he sacrifices not only his own interest but that of his neighbor he betrays the interest of his country.

Only trust thyself and another shall not betray thee.

In the case of my book I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy he betrays his teacher the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience etc.

If my career continues along its current arc people will probably look at me and see a writer who is obsessed with the relationship between rich and poor and with how the rich somehow or other always manage to betray the poor even when they don't mean to.

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

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

Patriotism in America as I understand it is a matter of suffering when the country fails to live up to its promises or actively betrays them.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.