Top 100 Quotes About Treacherous
#1. Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.
Stevie Smith
#2. A dangerous and treacherous path is only worth it when the desire to have courage outweighs the driving need to get to the other side.
Solange Nicole
#3. Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.
George Bernard Shaw
#4. Death is inexorable but not treacherous.
Ann Aguirre
#5. The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.
Alfred Marshall
#7. Unfortunately, one mirror is as treacherous as another, reflecting at some point in every adventure the same vain unsatisfied face, and so when she asks what have I done? she means really what am I doing? as one usually does.
Truman Capote
#8. Some might call us a monstrous pair, and they would be right. Tyrus and I were both scorpions in our way, dangerous creatures crossing the most treacherous of rivers together. Together we might sting - but we also would float.
S.J. Kincaid
#9. No matter our sins or our sufferings, we are not isolated or abandoned. Christ is there for us, in good times and bad, and if we know how to follow Him, how to walk in His footsteps, then the road home doesn't seem quite so treacherous or impossible to scale.
Toni Sorenson
#10. Yes, yes," said the Beast, "my heart is good, but still I am a monster." Among mankind," says Beauty, "there are many that deserve that name more than you, and I prefer you, just as you are, to those, who, under a human form, hide a treacherous, corrupt, and ungrateful heart.
Jeanne-Marie Leprince De Beaumont
#11. Herein lies a riddle: How can a people so gifted by God become so seduced by naked power, so greedy for money, so addicted to violence, so slavish before mediocre and treacherous leadership, so paranoid, deluded, lunatic?
Philip Berrigan
#12. The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.
Wilhelm II
#13. Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#14. Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
Thomas Mann
#15. I've been called treacherous, stupid, venal, lazy ..and that's only by the Tories.
Peter MacKay
#16. I'm full of restlessness. Not lonely, exactly - my head is racing with ideas. But it is that old treacherous feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, and I'm left out.
Helen Garner
#17. How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?
Ellen Hopkins
#18. You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Everybody would sing it. Music helped us. James Brown, 'Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud.' They helped black people figure out how to navigate what was a very treacherous place in America for them.
Geoffrey Canada
#19. Abortion is an atrocity. Those who practice or praise it are either damn idiots, misguided fools, or treacherous devils.
Christopher Titus
#20. Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.
Elizabeth Wein
#21. If he could walk across the room and touch her he would be sane. But between them lay a treacherous and complex journey. It was a very wide world.
Michael Ondaatje
#22. Love was a damaging mistake and its accomplice,hope, a treacherous illusion.
Khaled Hosseini
#23. This is proof that Monday wants me dead...Wednesday wouldn't do this to me. It's laid back. Friday actually likes me! But Monday is a bitter, backstabbing treacherous day." - Thradly the Goblin.
Arthur Daigle
#24. Like all immigrants, he seemed to have an unerring instinct for the oldest, truest words in his new language. The way he said the word, it felt free of the treacherous weight of mate
Richard Flanagan
#25. don't trust women, for they are easy to catch, but treacherous to possess.
Robert Evert
#26. It is easier to get lost within sight of the palace. [ ... ] Hope makes all things near, and so can prove treacherous.
Ben Okri
#27. The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths.
Augusten Burroughs
#28. Our passion for fear consumes us and gives birth to the imaginary. Once fear is unleashed, it feeds upon us and rips us apart like a wild animal. Its hold is great, narrow is the escape and treacherous the road. I know of what I speak, for I was once his victim.
Nancy B. Brewer
#29. As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.
Michel De Montaigne
#30. The female that loves unrequited sleeps,
And the male that loves unrequited sleeps,
The head of the money-maker that plotted all day sleeps,
And the enraged and treacherous dispositions, all, all sleep.
Walt Whitman
#31. Pride, I suppose, is the most treacherous of virtues. The Christians call it a sin, but no poet sings of men who have no pride. Christians say the meek will inherit the earth, but the meek inspire no songs.
Bernard Cornwell
#33. Sing of my deeds
Tell of my combats
How I fought the treacherous demons
Forgive my failings
And bestow on me peace
Phoolan Devi
#34. It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
Madeleine Stowe
#35. A faithless woman, if known to be such by the person concerned, is but faithless ; if she is believed faithful, she is treacherous.
Jean De La Bruyere
#36. Nurse: "Yet he is found to be treacherous towards his friends".
Tutor: "And what man is not? dost thou only now know this, that every one lives himself dearer than his neighbour, some indeed with justice, but others even for the sake of gain.
Euripides
#37. She Knows three things:
(a) that men are less treacherous than women;
(b) that they never notice what a woman is wearing because
they're always mentally undressing her,
(c) that as long as you've got breasts,thighs,buttocks and belly in
good trim, you can conquer the world.
Paulo Coelho
#38. Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them
Charles Caleb Colton
#39. Everyone knew that bastards were wanton and treacherous by nature, having been born of lust and deceit.
George R R Martin
#41. Against legitimacy is arrayed usurpation; against modest,
single-minded, righteous, and brave resistance to encroachment
is arrayed boastful, double-tongued, selfish, and treacherous
ambition to possess. God defend the right!"
"God often defends the powerful.
Charlotte Bronte
#42. The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.
George Stillman Hillard
#43. Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.
Seneca The Younger
#44. Just about everything in this life is treacherous, ready to twist and shape-shift at any second; it seemed to me that the whole world would be a different place if you had someone you were certain of, certain to the bone, or if you could be that to someone else.
Tana French
#45. That's because we were together for two years and she led me on a treacherous journey through bitchy, across frigid, and into the land of cheating psycho. I barely escaped with my life. It required a week of solid moping just so my balls could grow back.
S.E. Culpepper
#46. She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.
Pat Conroy
#47. The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.
William Shakespeare
#48. It's not just that there are two sides to every dispute. It's that each side sincerely believes its version of the story, namely that it is an innocent and long-suffering victim and the other side a malevolent and treacherous sadist.
Steven Pinker
#49. Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully ... There are millions of treacherous moments.
David Sheff
#50. I learned early on that love was treacherous, leaving my heart like an open wound for others to infect.
Maggie Young
#51. Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#52. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.
Khaled Hosseini
#53. Children should not have treacherous diseases or be afraid. This should be one rule we all agree on.
Anne Lamott
#54. Along the brittle treacherous bright streets
of memory comes my heart,singing like
an idiot,whispering like a drunken man
E. E. Cummings
#55. Every successful artist comes from a family - parents or siblings or both - who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue the treacherous and difficult path of the artist.
Chris Abani
#56. In the case of sand as in that of woman, there is a fineness which is treacherous.
Victor Hugo
#58. But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.
Danielle Trussoni
#59. Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore.
Herman Melville
#60. Blind dates are treacherous. You don't know who this person is. You wonder, 'Should I call my grandma during coffee to get out of this?'
Alan Alda
#61. The heart is a treacherous beast, but it means well.
David Levithan
#62. What one ought to capture in beauty is that which is treacherous and irresistible ...
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
#63. For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage of inevitability, the assumption that different outcomes lay beyond the limits of the possible.
Eric Foner
#64. We read novels because they give us the comfortable sensation of living in worlds where the notion of truth is indisputable, while the actual world seems to be a more treacherous place.
Umberto Eco
#65. Music,' she said, in a languorous and dreamlike manner. 'Music is a betrayer of secrets; it is more treacherous even than dreams, which at least have the virtue of being private.
Rachel Cusk
#66. Going over to Lesvos in Greece and meeting some of these poor refugees who have just made the treacherous sea crossing opened my eyes in a way I can't even being to describe. It's put a fire in my belly to really try to do something, the little I can do.
Douglas Booth
#67. The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.
Joseph Conrad
#68. If you watch tonight's show, I believe you know that I believe we're heading into deep and treacherous waters.
Glenn Beck
#69. I guess my guitar parts are usually precise, but the execution of those parts is downright treacherous, since I'm not very good on guitar.
Dan Bejar
#70. In moments, I clutched at the notion of some larger "me" that could contain and justify my contradictory behavior, but more often I simply felt like the scene of two irreconcilable visions, two different people, one unerringly loyal and faithful, the other treacherous and greedy.
Jennifer Egan
#71. Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear, like slaves dreading the lash. Under a Democracy they are so as a means of attaining popularity and office, and because of the greed for wealth.
Albert Pike
#72. Every sunny familiar spot in our shared landscape had become a dark minefield, fraught with treacherous nuances and implications.
Tana French
#73. For me, certain signifiers fit you, and not others. For me, all signifiers fit me, one as well as another. I am rascal, hero, craven, brave, treacherous, loyal, at once the secret hero and asshole of the Cosmos.
Walker Percy
#74. My dear, treacherous mother," he breathed. "What have you done?
Grace Draven
#75. There's something incredibly primal about facing something treacherous but doing it anyway.
Martin Henderson
#76. If I had died it would have been even better for you political bratchnies, would it not, pretending and treacherous droogs as you are.' But all that came out was er er er.
Anthony Burgess
#77. The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.
Bill Alexander
#78. Your kind, Aleran, are the most vicious and gentle, most savage and noble, most treacherous and loyal, most terrifying and fascinating creatures I have ever seen.' Her fingers brushed over his cheek again. 'And you are unique among them.
Jim Butcher
#79. Love is a treacherous emotion. You will fare better without it. We Medici always have.
C.W. Gortner
#80. The good psychologist is ambivalent about people, because he knows well their treacherous nature, their potential for destruction, delusion and deceit.
Noam Shpancer
#81. Building a company isn't that different from climbing a big mountain. You need people helping you traverse treacherous paths and to lift you up when you fall.
Vivek Wadhwa
#82. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.
Timothy Snyder
#83. She had broken, become something else. She didn't know what yet. Could you love someone in the process of changing? She did love Linh. As much as a ghost loved. The mind treacherous.
Tatjana Soli
#84. I was ten years old when my first 'Vogue' cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession.
Hamish Bowles
#85. And wanting nothing, regretting nothing, Peters smiled gratefully at life - running past, indifferent, ungrateful, treacherous, mocking, meaningless, alien - marvelous, marvelous, marvelous.
Tatyana Tolstaya
#86. Grown-ups are an untrustworthy, treacherous lot, they don't take their games in the serious wholehearted way children do, and yet they too have their own games, one more serious than the other, one game inside another, so that it's impossible to discover what the real one is.
Italo Calvino
#87. The headwaters of Shit Creek are a cruel and treacherous expanse.
Roger Zelazny
#89. Be careful. The conditions are treacherous with mud-sucking tentacles pulling shoes and socks into the murky bottom while smearing grime on those who passed by.
Jazz Feylynn
#90. It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.
John Calvin
#91. FAR FROM THE WHARF, well across the bay and almost to the open sea, was a tangle of rocks so treacherous that no captain familiar with these waters would sail his ship there.
Dave Barry
#93. You can make a mark across the night with the tip of an embered stick, and you can actually see it fixed in its finity. You can be absolutely sure of its treacherous impermanence. And that is all.
Ken Kesey
#94. Man is too near all kinds of beasts,
a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
Abraham Cowley
#95. He was still there when, having seen history now as a place rich in whims and incomprehensible plots for Reasons of State, he learned from Saint-Savin how treacherous was the great machine of the world, plagued by the iniquities of Chance.
Umberto Eco
#96. There are no guarantees when it comes to such treacherous things as friendship. It's a tricky business.
Matthew Quick
#97. Love is a noun as well as a verb, a treacherous construct.
Chloe Thurlow
#98. Well, all right. Something in what you say, I suppose. Consider you treacherous worm and contemptible, spineless cowardly custard, but have booked Spink-Bottle. Stay where you are, then, and I hope you get run over by an omnibus. Love. Travers
P.G. Wodehouse
#99. I clutched my chest, feeling my heart racing. You treacherous, treacherous thing. What have you done?
Kiera Cass
#100. Fear cannot be trusted ... It exaggerates everything. It is both treacherous and dishonest.
David Gemmell
