Top 100 Quotes About Treachery
#1. There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.
George MacDonald Fraser
#3. The only use for a knife during a shark attack is pure treachery: Stab your buddy, swim like hell, and hope the munchies take him.
Tim Cahill
#4. politics was a necessarily dirty game of treachery and deceit.
Dave Robinson
#5. It's the strongest love that makes the greatest treachery. The worst thing you can say to somebody is that you will be there no matter what and then fail to show.
Walter Mosley
#6. That was the treachery of suffering. It took you to the point from which you thought death must follow, then let you know it could hold you there indefinitely. That was when you stopped fearing death and started wanting it, praying for it, begging for it.
Glen Duncan
#7. I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
Aeschylus
#8. Be brave, gladiatrix, he said, And be wary. Bright things beget treachery. Beautiful things breed envy. Once you win Caesar's love, you'll earn his enemies' hate.
Lesley Livingston
#9. I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless.
John Lyly
#10. We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.
Michel De Montaigne
#11. Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
David Mamet
#12. Life kicks you and you begin to die, it kicks you again and you don't care anymore, it kicks you one last time and it puts hate it in your heart, the treachery of it all.
J.M. August
#13. How could any Lord have made this world? ... there is no reason, order, justice: but suffering, death, the poor. There was no treachery too base for this world to commit ... No happiness lasted.
Virginia Woolf
#14. The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays
Francis Bacon
#15. If I wrote that women could be unkind, I was considered a traitor
as if it were not worse treachery to pretend that all women were kind.
Erica Jong
#16. If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends?"
"Again, human nature. Hoping for the best is what drives us.
Gena Showalter
#17. Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and "the public's right to know"; the least talented talk about Art; the seemliest murmur about earning a living.
Janet Malcolm
#19. As you have seen the treachery of love because of me, I have seen my cruelty because of you. But you learned mercy from me, and from you I learned resilience. As you came to understand me enough to know the value I placed on selfless love, I understand your nature better.
D. Morgenstern
#20. I do know this much though: If a man resorts to wiles, guile and petty deceptions, it means he's nowhere near being in love.
Orhan Pamuk
#21. Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
Emily Bronte
#22. Most of the verses written about praise in God's Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#23. A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery.
Vladimir Lenin
#24. The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.
William Hazlitt
#25. Defeat I can endure with cheerfulness, my lady. But betrayal is like taking the wind from my sails, or the earth from beneath my feet. It chills my spirits like a rainy day, and all I can do is draw the curtains and cry into my pillow.
Margaret George
#26. Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
Livy
#27. The treachery of the Inhumane society was controlled by one man. As a brilliant scientist, he could have saved the town, but instead he fed on the loneliness and discontent of the fading town, and pushed people in the direction hw thought was right.
Lemony Snicket
#28. She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
Elizabeth Taylor
#29. One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
Anais Nin
#31. To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it
Jacqueline Carey
#32. You know," Rolf said, "you read stories when you're little, and you think it would be so amazing to have adventures happen to you. Then you actually go on one, and find out that it's awful. Nothing but bad food, sleeping cold on the hard ground, and treachery.
Jessica Day George
#33. There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.
Ouida
#35. The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny.
Edmund Burke
#36. This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to hell and blasphemy- When sorrow comes one's true friends are found; In times of joy ten thousand gather round.
Farid Al-Din Attar
#37. Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?
Winifred Holtby
#38. Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.
Bertrand Russell
#39. In that moment, hell may have ascended,
Or heaven may have descended only to save me and prove,
What I carry is an exaggerated memory of an imagined beautiful love.
This love is tainted with treachery; it will be my doom.
Sreesha Divakaran
#40. The Americans will never solve the Indian problem till the Indian is extinct. They have treated them after a fashion which has intensified their treachery and 'devilry' as enemies, and as friends reduces them to a degraded pauperism, devoid of the very first elements of civilization.
Isabella Bird
#41. At the door I planted a kiss on Paul's mouth with an uncontrollable ardor that I actually did feel-a kiss of treachery, for I could still taste the other man in my mouth.
Jamaica Kincaid
#42. What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.
George Orwell
#43. Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends, and then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my end. A glorious day, the one I learned the meaning of the word. It's good to know my enemies, though their reasons are absurd.
Vanna Bonta
#44. Our mission is not to impose our peculiar institutions upon other nations by physical force or diplomatic treachery but rather by internal peace and prosperity to solve the problem of self-government and reconcile democratic freedom with national stability.
Benjamin Harrison
#45. Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skills.
Ioan Gruffudd
#46. If there is one thing I've learned from the years in the criminal enterprises, it's that anyone can do almost anything to anybody else for any reason, and villainy and treachery doesn't have a thing to do with race, sex, species, or creed.
Tim Pratt
#47. I was just trying to get his attention!" the man protested at the top of his lungs. "If he'da listened, I wouldn'ta had to bash him.
J.D. Robb
#48. Hinkle, having made a treaty with the mob on his own responsibility, to carry out his treachery, marched the troops out of the city, and the brethren gave up their arms, their own property, which no government on earth had a right to require.
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Joseph Smith Jr.
#49. I suppose I should just be thankful that since you are so much given to treachery, you're so reassuringly inept at it.
Sharon Kay Penman
#50. A crazy country, choking air, polluted hearts, treachery. Treachery and treason.
Naguib Mahfouz
#51. Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.
Molly Haskell
#52. So while dueling may have begun as a response to high crimes - to treachery, treason, and adultery - by 1900 it had tiptoed down the stairs of reason, until they were being fought over the tilt of a hat, the duration of a glance, or the placement of a comma. In
Amor Towles
#53. There is always the threat of tomorrow's treachery, or next year's treachery, or the treachery implicit in all the tomorrows beyond that.
Tim O'Brien
#54. It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not because you think it's true.
Bertrand Russell
#55. treachery, weakness, envy, fanaticism - the most destructive forces available to man.
Greg Iles
#56. Horses are far worse than men for treachery...
James Clavell
#57. men of m blood and treachery shall not n live out half their days. But I will o trust in you.
Anonymous
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Saaskia Aark-Bennett
#59. Terrible fires resemble terrible people. They are unpredictable. They are selfish. they are deadly and ruinous. And no matter where they are prowling, no matter what treachery they are cooking up, they have something in common. They can be stopped.
Lemony Snicket
#61. Your treachery is what I have come to expect. And my heart, you never deserved its affection.
Joel T. McGrath
#62. Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#63. May God have mercy on my soul for the deaths on my name and for the treachery I committed. Betrayal of God and country, what a sad and horrible thing it is.
E. Howard Hunt
#64. Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your hands are clean.
George R R Martin
#65. Malevolence and paranoia cohabit in a twisted mind. Bad men trust no one because they know the treachery of which they themselves are capable.
Dean Koontz
#66. Millennia of servitude, Abhorsen. Chained by trickery, treachery ... captivenin a repulsive, fixed-flesh shape ... but there will be payment, slow payment - not quick, not quick at all!
Garth Nix
#67. He's not afraid of anyone, m'lord."
"He should be. Fear is what keeps a man alive in this world of treachery and deceit.
George R R Martin
#68. When an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could use more of that kind of "treachery".
Ray McGovern
#69. old age and treachery always beat out youth and skill.
Wayne Newton
#70. It was as though, so long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice, since all people are cowards and naturally prefer any kind of treachery because it has a bland outside.
William Faulkner
#71. Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery
Mario Puzo
#72. In life the turn coat (traitor) is never trustworthy by either side. The one that he betrayed will hate him and the other that benefited from his treachery will fear him. After all what is going to stop the "turn coat" from betraying him as well.
Artur Pawlowski
#74. I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally.
Bharati Mukherjee
#75. The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel.
Brenna Yovanoff
#76. Machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves
William Shakespeare
#77. You cannot live far from the treachery of the world, because eventually the treachery will wash up on your shores.
Lemony Snicket
#78. 10 For as thorns embrace one another: so while they are feasting and drinking together, they shall be consumed as stubble that is fully dry. 11 Out of thee shall come forth one that imagineth evil against the Lord, contriv ing treachery in his mind.
Anonymous
#79. Someone had painted FUK U on the dented trunk.
"What does it say about the literacy rate when you can even spell fuck. It's sad," Eve decided.
J.D. Robb
#80. The treacheries of ambition never cease.
Ruben Dario
#81. Scared of her, solicitous of her, in love with her - she had seen all that. And shouting at her furiously for some small treachery, or for nothing at all; she had certainly seen that too. Because he had loved her.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#82. Speak up for me, sir, for I'm not so bad. I was led on by the treachery of others.
Anthony Burgess
#83. It seemed that young people, despite their fundamental decency, now had to buy into a mind-set which made viciousness and treachery come easy.
Irvine Welsh
#84. This is treachery, to change faith in accord with shifting fortune. The justice of my cause impelled me to withstand even adverse circumstance.
Ulrich Von Hutten
#85. Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery.
Olusegun Obasanjo
#86. And he who wields white, wild magic gold is a paradox
For he is everything and nothing
Hero and fool
Potent, helpless
And with one word of truth or treachery
He will save or damn the earth
Because he is mad and sane
Cold and passionate
Lost and found
Stephen R. Donaldson
#87. History was indeed controlled by blind forces, as well as character and courage and treachery and love. And accident and random chance. And stray bullets and telegrams and tips. And cats.
Connie Willis
#88. Politicians nowadays treat Americans like medical orderlies treat Alzheimer's patients, telling them anything that will keep them subdued. It doesn't matter what untruths the people are fed because they will not long remember. But in politics, forgotten falsehoods almost guarantee new treachery.
James Bovard
#89. In fiction, every treachery and setback appears to serve some end: the characters learn and grow and come into their own. In life, it is not always clear that the hijacking of our plans is quite so provident or benign.
Azar Nafisi
#91. The price of freedom is high - far higher than that of slavery. And it is not paid in gold, nor in blood, nor in the most noble sacrifices, but in cowardice, in prostitution, in treachery, and in everything that is rotten in the human soul.
Curzio Malaparte
#92. It must be the full confession by Christendom of Christendom's specific contribution to the sum of human cruelty and treachery.
C.S. Lewis
#93. I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.
Abraham Lincoln
#94. We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
Bashar Al-Assad
#95. Raoul: Age and treachery!
Neal: Youth and skill!
Tamora Pierce
#96. What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#97. Treachery is always a hairy caterpillar bred of a small butterfly called envy, no matter how lofty the principles involved.
Fazil Iskander
#98. Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
Joseph Heller
#99. Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood.
John Edward Redmond
#100. May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
