A Quote by John Updike

All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.

John Updike

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John Updike
American - Novelist
March 18, 1932 - January 27, 2009

If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend.

Benjamin Franklin

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

There is simply no comparison between a man who is armed and one who is not. It is simply unreasonable to expect that an armed man should obey one who is unarmed, or that an unarmed man should remain safe and secure when his servants are armed.

Niccolo Machiavelli

In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.

Henri Lefebvre

An armed republic submits less easily to the rule of one of its citizens than a republic armed by foreign forces. Rome and Sparta were for many centuries well armed and free. The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom. Among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible. It is not reasonable to suppose that one who is armed will obey willingly one who is unarmed; or that any unarmed man will remain safe among armed servants.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.

Joyce Carol Oates

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

Albert Camus

Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life.

George Eliot

Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.

Oscar Wilde

If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.

Stephen King

The feelings which seek expression in words are mostly egotistical, since they seek to express what flatters our self-love and can show us, as we imagine, in the best light.

Lorenzo Scupoli

An armed man, especially if he is armed with a firearm, is dangerous as long as he is conscious. Take no chances. Put him out.

Jeff Cooper

Whether you're a vampire or werewolf, love is still love. Betrayal is still betrayal.

Nathan Parsons

Afraid to Die Loveless Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen.

Ellen Hopkins

Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring - this is one of the harshest human miseries.