Maureen Dowd Quotes

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

Did you really think I would sell you out?

Do not betray the people.

Never trade a secret, you'll always get the short end of the bargain.

To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.

Human beings exist that have integrity, that know how to keep their mouth shut, that know the bigger picture, that don't sell out their friends.

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

I've always been intrigued by the power of secrets. When is it justifiable to keep them from the ones we love? And does keeping them irrevocably change who we are?

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Tell never thy counsel to thy foe.

What you would hide from an enemy don't tell a friend.

A close friend can become a close enemy.

...if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

My plays are ultimately about love, honor, duty, betrayal.

I have never been a traitor. I am not an informer; I never betrayed my nation.

'Donnie Brasco' was 85 percent on the money. The only thing that they slanted was my feelings for Lefty and Sonny', and this idea that I didn't want to go through with seeing them in jail. I was never swayed. There was no conflict.

Only those you trust can betray you" ~ Nathan

He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.

Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.

Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all.