Quotes About Treachery And Betrayal

#1. 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

#2. The life's story of great geniuses is a sad one, without much tangible reward, which does not inspire future generations to face a similar fate. Alas also, it stands to reason why so many talent will not come to sparkle on the artistic firmanent.

Joseph Haydn

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel.

Brenna Yovanoff

#6. Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery.

Olusegun Obasanjo

#7. It's not so much that I don't like traveling, it's just that I love being home. I love being able to spend time with my friends.

Andy Roddick

#8. Successes are like milestones while excellence is a never-ending journey.

Majid Kazmi

#9. There is different sorts of treachery, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it.

Jeanette Winterson

#10. There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#11. The betrayal of a friend differs from the treachery of a lover only in the degree of pain, not the kind.

Robin Hobb

#12. The rewards of tolerance are treachery and betrayal.

Games Workshop

#13. Become careless with fire, and sure enough, fire will burn you. Do treachery, and treachery will be done you. Kill, and be punished with death. All these I've done. Now I pay the price, in my own flesh and blood.

Diane Duane

#14. The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. Birth, copulation, death. You come out of one hole and you end up in another one. It's a pretty short trip.

Donald O'Donovan

#16. It's astonishing, actually, how much anger an animal's assault on your garden can incite.

Michael Pollan

#17. The Lord may very well have removed His blessing from America the moment America stopped blessing us.

Joel C. Rosenberg

#18. My dear, treacherous mother," he breathed. "What have you done?

Grace Draven