“Be silent and safe—silence never betrays you.”
John Boyle O'Reilly (1844–1890) Irish-born poet and novelist
Rules of the Road.
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“Secret guilt by silence is betrayed.”
John Dryden book The Hind and the Panther
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“He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
No. 401
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
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“There is no honour in betraying your friends.”
Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles
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“True friends never apart maybe in distance but never in heart”
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
“America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I’d rather be America’s enemy.”
Ahmed Chalabi (1944–2015) Iraqi politician
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“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist