Nature never did betray
The heart that loved her. [ Wordsworth ]
Outward acts betray the secret intention. [ Law Max ]
Hunger and cold betray a man to his enemy. [ Proverb ]
Silence is a friend that will never betray. [ Confucius ]
Eternal smiles his emptiness betray,
As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. [ Alexander Pope ]
Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance. [ Addison ]
Flowers are Love's truest language; they betray,
Like the divining rods of Magi old,
Where precious wealth lies buried, not of gold,
But love - strong love, that never can decay! [ Park Benjamin ]
Kind messages, that pass from land to land;
Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history.
In which we feel the pressure of a hand,
One touch of fire - and all the rest is mystery! [ Longfellow ]
A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes. [ George Eliot ]
Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray you. [ Proverb ]
To whom you betray your secret you sell your liberty. [ Franklin ]
It is difficult not to betray guilt by the countenance. [ Ovid ]
Alas! how difficult it is not to betray guilt by our looks! [ Ovid ]
Economy is an excellent lure to betray people into expense. [ Zimmermann ]
Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
It is a most base thing to betray a man because he trusted you. [ Proverb ]
Unless you bear with the faults of a friend, you betray your own. [ Syrus ]
A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world. [ Fielding ]
Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again. [ Lavater ]
In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
Features betray the temperament and character, but the mien indicates the degrees of fortune. [ La Bruyere ]
Few people are wise enough to prefer censure which may be useful, to flattery which may betray them. [ La Roche ]
The grace will carry us, if we do not willfully betray our succors, victoriously through all difficulties. [ Henry Hammond ]
It is hard to personate and act a part long, for where truth is not at the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep out and betray herself one time or another. [ Tillotson ]
Personal attachment is no fit ground for public conduct, and those who declare they will take care of the rights of the sovereign because they have received favours at his hand, betray a little mind and warrant the conclusion that if they did not receive those favours they would be less mindful of their duties, and act with less zeal for his interest. [ C. Fox ]
It is very singular, how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them. Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehood or betray its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. [ Hawthorne ]
Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo in the eyes; and if the heart be a lurking place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret. A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction assent, an enraged eye makes beauty a deformity; so you see, forsooth, the little organ plays no inconsiderable, if not a dominant, part. [ Frederick Saunders ]