Treachery Quotes

Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.

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.

One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery.

Horses are far worse than men for treachery.

Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor.

Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time.

I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless.

Hate is the father of all evil.

We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

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.

When it comes to treachery, he is implacable.

If by reaction you mean critical reaction, I was confident that we were putting out a quality book [ Treachery]. So I was reasonably sure that we'd get positive notices.

There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

There is always the threat of tomorrow's treachery, or next year's treachery, or the treachery implicit in all the tomorrows beyond that.

In terms of actual audience numbers, I honestly had no idea what to expect [with 'Treachery' ]. It was, after all, not a superhero title.

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.

Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill!

THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world.

Some friendship is closely akin to treachery.

A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.

Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness.

Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

The worst thing thou has to fear is the treachery of thine own heart.

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.

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

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.

Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.

Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.

Et tu Brute! (You too Brutus!)

The solid earth sways like the treacherous sea beneath the feet of men and spirits alike when the innocent are slain in the name of law, and their wrongs are undone by slandering the pure of heart.

The ambition of men compels them to break even the most heartfelt vows.

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

Its funny when people recently change their attitude to gain entrance into your heart, which may only ignite your passion to close the door.

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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.

Beautiful things were sometimes mixed up with treacherous things, they could even happen at the same time, or one could lead to the other, I thought.

The message had been delivered. All they could do now was wait. Valden hated waiting.

Treachery and violence are a just return for treachery and violence.

My dear, treacherous mother, ” he breathed. “What have you done?

Treachery though at first very cautious in the end betrays itself.

In politics all abstract terms conceal treachery.