Quotes About Treacherous

#1. No one has ever lived who knows better than you the proper placement of footfalls on treacherous paths.

Mary Todd Lincoln

#2. Even with all its positive attributes, capitalism in its imperialistic form is the most treacherous system mankind ever devised. It is driven by a selfishness that has an almost religious underlining to it.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#3. Irony is a treacherous servant; unless it's very carefully watched over, it has a tendency to expose the foolishness of its apparent master.

Mark O'Connell

#4. Nothing is so treacherous as the obvious.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

#5. But my heart is a treacherous star, refusing to dim when the sun rises

Jessica Khoury

#6. The real troubles with living is that living is so banal. Everyone, after all, goes the same dark road - and the road has a trick of being the most dark, most treacherous, when it seems most bright - and it's true that nobody stays in the garden of Eden.

James Baldwin

#7. And it's significant that he has been using the, you know, language of betrayal in his rhetoric about Turkey. He called the shoot down a treacherous stab in the back by an accomplice of the terrorists. And that suggests that there could still be some harsh revenge in store for Turkey.

Corey Flintoff

#8. He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for very long among clever men who are determined to find him out, although they may pretend to be deceived in order to disguise their knowledge of his deceitfulness.

Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

#9. It is our people who are sitting in the dark because of these cowardly and treacherous attacks, not our occupiers.

Iyad Allawi

#10. Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it's difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there's nothing else you could ever want.

Rachel Cohn

#11. Life justified itself. It might be cruel, treacherous, ironic, but it was life, and pain was as much a part of it as joy.

Sheila Kaye-Smith

#12. All we are is skin and bone trained to get along.

Taylor Swift

#13. Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, or treacherous bitches like Cleopatra or Helen of Troy

Bill Gates

#14. That treacherous little black heart that sits behind my ribs, as always when I think of her, begins to beat to a slow and ominous rhythm, betraying me so cruelly that I wish I could rip it from my chest and be free of it forever.

J.A. Redmerski

#15. And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any.

Thomas Paine

#16. Retaining the phrases was a treacherous enterprise, however. His greatest problem these days had been boredom. Now he had discovered its loyal assistant - poor memory!

Norman Mailer

#17. You three have done quite enough today: all of you and your feckless, treacherous god.

Janet Morris

#18. It is unwise to make something permanent when the whole world is shifting. There may be a time when this symbol means something treacherous and terrible, rather than something noble and literate.

Lemony Snicket

#19. There is only one sin - lack of love. Be brave, be capable of loving, even if love seems a terrible and treacherous thing. Find joy in love. Find joy in victory. Follow the dictates of your heart.

Paulo Coelho

#20. Bastard children were born from lust and lies, men said; their nature was wanton and treacherous. - Jon Snow

George R R Martin

#21. The sea has been called deceitful and treacherous, but there lies in this trait only the character of a great natural power, which, to speak according to our own feelings, renews its strength, and, without reference to joy or sorrow, follows eternal laws which are imposed by a higher Power.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#22. But the snags were thick, the water was treacherous and shallow, the boiler seemed indeed to have a sulky devil in it, and thus neither that fireman nor I had any time to peer into our creepy thoughts.

Joseph Conrad

#23. Please don't invent a debt that does not exist, or next you will be trying to feel gratitude - and that is the treacherous first step toward complete moral degradation.

Robert A. Heinlein

#24. Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

Theodore Dreiser

#25. Development is a treacherous river, as
everyone who plunges into its currents knows.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#26. The truth is a cave in the black mountains. There is one way there, and one way only, and that way is treacherous and hard. And if you choose the wrong path you will die alone, on the mountainside.

Neil Gaiman

#27. In this treacherous world
Nothing is the truth nor a lie.
Everything depends on the color
Of the crystal through which one sees it

Pedro Calderon De La Barca

#28. If Christ came back he would drive his treacherous servants out of the temple with a whip.

Joseph Goebbels

#29. Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world, space is by far the less mysterious ... Space is, after all, solid, monolithic ... Time, on the other hand, is a hostile element, truly treacherous, I would say even against human nature.

Stanislaw Lem

#30. Their raspy kisses brand our jam tart necks, their treacherous miasma clasps our herbal thighs. Motherlessly we surrender, too many fathers we have, we, your daughters of joy.

Laura Gentile

#31. Why did I choose to fight him? He was going to die whether I fought him or not, and he was dangerous, half my age and a warrior. But it is reputation, always reputation. Pride, I suppose, is the most treacherous of virtues.

Bernard Cornwell

#32. Nothing safe is worth the drive.

Taylor Swift

#33. We should waken to the truth that it is a treacherous sin not to pursue our fullest satisfaction in God.

John Piper

#34. Auguste had fought with honour. He had
been the one honourable man on a
treacherous field.

C.S. Pacat

#35. It is odd, the twists that life will sometimes take. The ewe that you think will give birth with ease dies bringing forth a two-headed lamb. Or the ski trail that you have been told is treacherous, you navigate easily.

Edith Pattou

#36. Treacherous assassins, enemies of the people, and worthy of everyone's ridicule are those who, under the pretext of guiding future generations, teach them an isolated system of doctrines and whisper in their ear (instead of the sweet message of love) the barbarous gospel of hate.

Jose Marti

#37. If I assume the 'truth' to be negotiable based on whether or not it serves my agenda, then my agenda has become my 'truth.' And the 'truth' of the matter is, when I do this I've chosen to take a treacherous path through some very deep woods where neither path nor woods exist.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#38. The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.

Horace

#39. The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable, submissive and resentful of being pushed around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new ways.

Ruth Benedict

#40. Seeing into the future is not a straight line. You are given the choice of a hundred paths through a treacherous swamp. Some will lead you safely onwards, others drown you, and sometimes it's hard to tell which is which," my mother says.

Cat Hellisen

#41. I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like.

Albert Einstein

#42. To reach the pinnacle of success, you have to cross the treacherous valleys of failures and discontent.

Debasish Mridha

#43. Hope is treacherous, but how can you live without it?

Elizabeth Wein

#44. You begin your journey not knowing where it will take you. You have plans, you have dreams, but every now and again you have to take uncharted roads, face impassable mountains, cross treacherous rivers, be blocked by landslides and earthquakes. That's the way my life has been.

Lee Kuan Yew

#45. The world around you is not equipped to provide the help you need to make it through this often treacherous journey.

Thomas S. Monson

#46. Life is short. Art long. Opportunity is fleeting. Expierience treacherous. Judgement difficult.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#47. Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.

Henry Ward Beecher

#48. Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.

Louis Sullivan

#49. ENOUGH!" bellows Zeus and not only stops Ares diatribe , but freezes every god and robot in place. "I'll hear no more whining prattle from you, Ares, you lying, two-faced, treacherous sparrowfart, you miserable excuse for a man, much less for a god.

Dan Simmons

#50. Badmind is such a treacherous emotion because the very thing someone badmind's you for, is the same thing he/she wants for themselves.

Crystal Evans

#51. No one can reach the pinnacle of success without crossing the treacherous valleys of failures.

Debasish Mridha

#52. Yet a treacherous weapon is ever a danger to the hand. Saruman

J.R.R. Tolkien

#53. Oh, how great is the power of truth! which of its own power can easily defend itself against all the ingenuity and cunning and wisdom of men, and against the treacherous plots of all the world.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#54. Beautiful cities have a treacherous nature.

Pat Conroy

#55. A man can smile and smile and be a villain. Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain. What

Aldous Huxley

#56. Once you've started down that road to self-discovery, no matter how treacherous the path before you, you can't turn back. The universe doesn't allow it.

Lisa Unger

#57. But homosexuality is a combat divider, dividing one's reason to live while taking breaks on the combat field to change diapers all because their treacherous sin causes them to lose control of their bowels.

Gordon Klingenschmitt

#58. The river was slow here, our old Cherwell, but kitted out with treacherous tree roots and crumbling banks, and just enough depth to scare one toward salvation.

Gregory Maguire

#59. I dreamed of you and a dead dragon, Egg's brother Daeron said to him. A great beast, huge, with wings so large they could cover this meadow. It had fallen on top of you, but you were alive and the dragon was dead.
And so he was, poor Baelor. Dreams were a treacherous ground on which to build.

George R R Martin

#60. Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#61. Self-justification is a treacherous servant.

Wellington Mara

#62. Depression is so treacherous - it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it's yours and yours alone - no one else can interfere with it.

Margo Jefferson

#63. The Devil's minions worked his treacherous plot through the hearts of men, possessing them, ruling them. These hounds of hell ran wild these days through their human hosts, working greater and greater abominations.

Eric J. Martindale

#64. As with the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock, the origins of Shearith Israel trace back to a small group of religious freedom-seekers and a treacherous ocean passage to the New World.

Meir Soloveichik

#65. Pipes filled with brine that spied on the inhabitants of buildings watching, listening, hunting. You might obscure the attention of the Londonmancers, with the complicity of a treacherous borough, with strikebreaking hexes strong enough: but nothing could stay hidden from an inquisitive sea.

China Mieville

#66. Stuffwise we are not a lean operation. We're the kind of people who, if we were deciding what absolute minimum essential items we'd need to carry in our backpacks for the final, treacherous ascent to the summit of Mount Everest, would take along aquarium filters, just in case.

Dave Barry

#67. Treacherous ashes hide
The fires through which you stride

Horace

#68. What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

John Green

#69. Haesten.
If this world ever contained one worthless, treacherous slime-coated piece of human dung then it was Haesten.

Bernard Cornwell

#70. And if King Edward be as true and just
As I am subtle, false, and treacherous,
This day should Clarence closely be mewed up ...

William Shakespeare

#71. I reply with a letter as brief as his: 'My brother, after my first battle the only thing I now worship is the sun, a star that represents death's constancy. Beware of the moon, which reflects our world of beauty. It waxes and wanes, it is treacherous and ephemeral. We will all die some day ...

Shan Sa

#72. Better be wrong to a stranger than be wrong to your husband - Treacherous Desires Book

Kritika Sharma

#73. Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.

Abraham Kuyper

#74. Its from the deep waters that we come.
And we are heartfelt and treacherous like those waters.
We come with an unflinching devotion to the mystical and to God - representing life and embracing death.

Lisa Bonet

#75. The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#76. Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames.

Joshua Homme

#77. Every great thing starts with an idea, followed by a doubt and finally a resolve to abandon or pursue. Victory is a treacherous journey.

Dane Cook

#78. Such misplaced faith in a boy with a murderous past and a girl with treacherous intent.

Renee Ahdieh

#79. It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down.

Philippe Petit

#80. The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed and given to evil habits, or else it can be a man in his late forties who works too much, or it can be an alarm clock.

Kelly Link

#81. The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.

Betty Davis

#82. What a treacherous thing a body was, how it so blatantly acted out the mind's secrets.

Nathan Hill

#83. Frodo drew himself up, and again Sam was startled by his words and his stern voice. 'On the Precious? How dare you?' he said. 'Think! Would you commit your promise to that, Smeagol? It will hold you. But it is more treacherous than you are. It may twist your words. Beware!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#84. O, treacherous Death! You can't be forgiven for vanquishing my creator to the dust.

Mallika Tripathi

#85. Oh, treacherous night thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade.

Aaron Hill

#86. I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.

Thomas Starr King

#87. You backbiting, poisonous, treacherous, deceitful, wicked, clever girl. If this works I'll buy you a pony.

Jim Butcher

#88. We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.

Jodi Picoult

#89. Our Intuition is the beacon that guides us to peace, and navigates us through the treacherous Karmic waters.

Kim Chestney

#90. The earliest Greek philosopher's criticized Homer's mythology because the gods resembled mortals too much and were just as egotistic and treacherous.

Jostein Gaarder

#91. Love is an emerald.
Its brilliant light wards off dragons
On this treacherous path.

Rumi

#92. It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.

John Von Neumann

#93. A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.

Amin Maalouf

#94. America is harmless as an enemy but treacherous as a friend.

Bernard Lewis

#95. Better confide and be deceiv'd,
A thousand times, by treacherous foes,
Than once accuse the innocent,
Or let suspicion mar repose.

Frances Sargent Osgood

#96. For me, when I'm not working, the day goes by so fast. I never have enough time - getting a manicure, getting a pedicure, getting my workout in, making sure that I ate healthy. Those things can become treacherous to the mind.

Jill Soloway

#97. Inborn in almost every artistic nature is a luxuriant, treacherous bias in favor of the injustice that creates beauty, a tendency to sympathize with aristocratic preference and pay it homage. A

Thomas Mann

#98. Hearts can be treacherous, but the best way to keep them from fooling you is to listen to them intently

Paulo Coelho

#99. Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel.
Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart

Judith McNaught

#100. Comparing infinities is a treacherous business

Brian Greene