Top 100 Traitor Quotes
#1. Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
John Selden
#2. He could not close his eyes and just walk by; that was a real monster his traitor mind had created, and it could really tear him apart.
Stephen King
#3. You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.
Geoffrey Rush
#4. When a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward.
C.S. Lewis
#5. No, Mom. I said fine."
"It's just your tone."
Ah, yes- the tone. The nasty traitor.
Deb Caletti
#6. Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
Robinson Jeffers
#7. I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.
Mahatma Gandhi
#8. As the heavy latticed iron beetled above
their heads, Damen found himself
wanting it, wanting disruption, a cry of
outrage, or of challenge, wanting it as a
release to this
feeling. Traitor. Stop.
But none came.
C.S. Pacat
#9. Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor
Andrew Johnson
#10. I had to do something. A young man came into my home for protection. Is he dangerous? No. Is he a spy? No. Is he a traitor? No. He's just a Jewish teenager who wants to leave.
Chiune Sugihara
#11. As far as I am concerned, collectively, the right wing of the blogosphere is the 'boy who called traitor.' Not a week goes by when I hear that so and so should be ostracized because they are a treasonous rat, they are a commie symp, whatever.
John Cole
#12. [The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.
C.S. Lewis
#13. It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one who did.
C.S. Lewis
#14. I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.
Philip Yancey
#15. When I served in the Army, along the Iron Curtain we had a word for a person who absconds with information and provides it to another nation: traitor. We also had a name for a person who chooses to reveal secrets he had personally promised to protect: common criminal.
Mike Pompeo
#16. I cannot be a traitor, since I never swore fealty to the English king.
William Wallace
#17. You can call anyone you want a traitor as long as you're the one holding the pen.
Nihad Sirees
#18. The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#19. But you're not a traitor, you've merely been the tool of one. I don't punish tools. They do harm only in the hands of a bad workman.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#20. Oh what foul traitor in your midst could have called such a pestilence down upon the very, er, Shakrathly presence of his own beloved Emperor! For shame!
Dave Stone
#21. The fast fliers are not disgraced." Queen Ree reached up for the missing tiara. "She saved us, but she's with him now."
Vidia was complicated, two fairies in one, a loyal traitor.
Gail Carson Levine
#22. I dunno why you hate us so much. I dunno why you hate me so much. I dunno why you're calling Guillory a traitor when he's the furthest thing from it. But don't call what you're doing justice. Don't talk about punishment and crimes. Whatever your agenda is, it passed 'justice' by long ago.
Addison Lane
#23. The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.
James Russell Lowell
#24. (about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor!
Robin Sloan
#25. I shall not lie!" Eilonwy cried, "not for this traitor and deserter."
"It is not for him," Taran said quietly, "but for the sake of our quest."
"It isn't right," Eilonwy began, tears starting in her eyes.
"We do not speak of rightness," Taran answered. "We speak of a task to be finished.
Lloyd Alexander
#26. In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.
Alexander Pushkin
#27. The cry of "Traitor!" was not a local voice only, but a bewildered people's explanation of the inexplicable. It was the eternal cry of conspiracy, of stab in the back.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#28. A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a theif or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all in which label is able to persist.
Gregory Maguire
#29. I didn't make you come here." Jin's eyes bored into mine, but I wasn't backing down. He said I had traitor eyes. Let him see the betrayal there. Let him drown in it. "I didn't trick you and I didn't ask you to.
Alwyn Hamilton
#32. A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me.
George III
#33. Italy being a traitor?" His voice grated. "The Duce - he was a clown; we all know that.
Philip K. Dick
#34. A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.
Henry Ward Beecher
#35. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did.
C.S. Lewis
#36. In the last war, people became vocal from the right-wing point of view: if you're liberal, then you're a traitor.
Etgar Keret
#37. It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#38. A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.
Abraham Lincoln
#39. Varys appeared not long after Lord Jacelyn had left. "Men are such faithless creatures," he said by way of greeting. Tyrion sighed. "Who's the traitor today?" The eunuch handed him a scroll. "So much villainy, it sings a sad song for our age. Did honor die with your fathers?
George R R Martin
#40. Softly, reassuringly, he comforted his friend, as they waited for death together. As if the Don could truly snatch the life of Genco Abbandando back from that most foul and criminal traitor to man.
Mario Puzo
#41. I was very sorry to hear about your losses. Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they'll be more frightened of marriage than they are presently. (Olenna Tyrell to Sansa Stark
George R R Martin
#42. The neoconservatives are a small circle, and they're all sort of holding hands as they develop their policy, and outsiders aren't allowed. If you agree with the guys on the inside, you're a genius. If you disagree, you're a traitor, a pariah, you're an apostate, and you're not allowed in.
Seymour Hersh
#43. He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.
Plutarch
#44. And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in the majority of the society? Will it be in the minority? Or in an individual of that minority?
Thomas Jefferson
#45. He felt, in a way so familiar as to be almost dreary, the chosen victim of the gods, the self-admitted traitor, the one destined for judgment.
Iris Murdoch
#46. There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds he becomes a founding father. The
Saul D. Alinsky
#47. I am proud to be Chinese, and I do not tolerate any traitor.
Alex Chiu
#48. Man is very well defended against himself ... The actual fortress is inaccessible, even invisible to him, unless his friends and enemies play the traitor and conduct him in by a secret path.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#49. Jason Bourne was the name of someone in American military intelligence - a traitor who was shot dead for his crime. When the present Bourne was recruited into Treadstone he was given the name of the dead man.
Eric Van Lustbader
#50. The young man who joins a political party is a traitor to his generation and to his race.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
#51. If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.
John Milton
#52. Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger, but never without revenge.
Robert Greene
#53. So one of my responsibilities, as a white, cis-gendered woman, is to learn how to be a traitor to the 'joys' of patriarchal culture that I experience, however unconsciously.
Erin Wunker
#54. A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within ... for the traitor appears not to be a traitor ... he rots the soul of a nation ... he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#55. Love may claim our hearts but lust will always claim our bodies. It is the traitor that lurks in every soul.
Anthony Ryan
#56. Ah, this is Princess that turned Prince traitor," he hissed, eyeing me up and down. "And now they need goblin tunnels out of city, good, good."
-Sweetfinger
Julie Kagawa
#57. I'm the thing that the ISI fears the most. The spy who becomes a traitor willingly and embraces everything he's been trained to destroy.
Khalid Muhammad
#58. My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor.
Veruschka Von Lehndorff
#59. Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
Wendell Phillips
#61. The monster was crumbling, shrinking, revealing a man. Only a man. A traitor and a murderer certainly, but that made him less not more.
Jonathan Renshaw
#62. The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.
Mark Twain
#63. No Son [ ... ] Not a traitor to your country. Much worse. A traitor to your soul.
Ruta Sepetys
#64. I'm not very impressed by people who yell "traitor" and "communist" and other less printable things. I don't like it.
Christopher Hitchens
#65. Divested of your clothing and women and guard, you're just a traitor with his crimes laid bare for the world to see.
Erika Johansen
#66. I am somewhat proud of this," Mab's cold voice said. "To be sure, the White Christ never suffered so long or so terribly as did this traitor. Three days on a tree. Hardly enough time for a prelude. When it came to visiting agony, the Romans were hobbyists.
Jim Butcher
#67. So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every person a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them!
Swami Vivekananda
#68. I know that I have been denounced as a traitor and I resent the accusation, as I conceive myself to have been guilty of no underhand or deceitful act against Britain, although I am also able to understand the resentment that my broadcasts have, in many quarters, aroused.
William Joyce
#69. into Narnia at the very beginning. You know that every traitor belongs to me as my lawful prey and that for every treachery I have a right to a kill." "Oh," said Mr. Beaver. "So
C.S. Lewis
#70. Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house.
Orison Swett Marden
#71. From one end to the other I have identified with various forms of spirituality. I was a Jew, then a God-hater. I was an atheist, then a Christian, for which I was called a traitor.
April Voytko Kempler
#72. A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.
Mary McCarthy
#73. ...[A] rebel who is inaccurate and mad is a traitor.
Rebecca West
#74. A girl on North Fremont is discouraged by the postman, who tells her that only a traitor would dare exchange letters with the Japanese. NEW
Julie Otsuka
#75. You can't kill an American Citizen without benefit of a trial."
"I can if you're on the list, traitor."
"LIST? What list? What the hell are you talking about?"
BLACK LIST, July 24
Brad Thor
#76. A traitor commits his crime but once. The rest/is retribution.
Marie Howe
#77. There is not an enemy so stout, as to storm and take the fortress of the mind, Unless its infirmity turn traitor, and Fear unbar the gates.
John Adams
#78. Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind is warranted by reasons. Better is an obstinant disputant, that yieldeth inch by inch, Than the shallow traitor to himself, who surrendereth to half an argument.
Charles Caleb Colton
#79. A traitor may betray himself and do good he does not intend.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#80. I remember that just as I was about to cross the border they asked me what I had to declare and, like an idiot, I answered: I want to declare that I am a traitor to the human race.
Henry Miller
#81. You feel a little weird, as a writer of scripted television for many years, to say you're a fan of reality TV. You feel like a traitor. But I am a total fan.
Mike White
#82. Um, hello?" I raised a hand. "Not a traitor, and the Queen told us where to find you. Or do you think that we're such major badasses that we fought our way through the knowe to come and loiter at you in an imposing fashion? Because I've got to say I'm flattered.
Seanan McGuire
#83. Pick a side or create new one !
Otherwise be a coward or traitor.
Toba Beta
#84. There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth
Lord Byron
#85. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust. In a closely beleaguered city every sentry is a potential traitor.
Graham Greene
#86. He that loves the Word and the purity of its precepts cannot turn traitor.
William Gurnall
#87. How come she couldn't have a nice supernatural life like the girls on Charmed or even Buffy? They all had friends. Even on Supernatural, the boys had each other. What did she have? Nothing, but one damed traitor after another.
Caroline Hanson
#88. Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.
William Blake
#89. Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#91. Everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor and a scoundrel.
George III
#92. If I turn mine eyes upon myself, I find myself a traitor with the rest;
William Shakespeare
#93. Magnus Bane. The Ultimate Traitor.
Not my favorite nickname. I prefer, "Our Lord and Master" or maybe "Unambiguously the Hottest.
Cassandra Clare
#94. That cat was a traitor. And if by some miracle she lived through the night, he was getting downgraded to Tender Vitals.
J.R. Ward
#96. My first language, the true language of the soul spoken only on our planet of origin, had no word for betrayal or traitor. Or even loyalty- because without the opposite, the concept had no meaning.
Stephenie Meyer
#97. A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is the most likely to become a traitor, since lying is the beginning of treachery.
Ashraf Dehghani
#98. Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they'll be even more frightened of marriage than they are presently.
George R R Martin
#99. I know we will never be more than friends, but my heart is relentless. And a traitor. It abandoned me that day on the porch, leaving me to suffer in silence with my unrequited crush.
L.B. Simmons
#100. I'm a traitor, but I don't consider myself a traitor.
Aldrich Ames
