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.

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.

He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is or very soon will be void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections.

You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.