Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery. — Ouida Copy Share Image
A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“treachery, weakness, envy, fanaticism—the most destructive forces available to man.” — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“Only by an act of treachery to those who believe in us can either of us escape.” — Nevil Shute Copy Share Image
Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young? — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery. — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any… — Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr Copy Share Image
To read Lucia St. Clair Robson is to learn while being thoroughly entertained. Last Train from Cuernavaca puts us through the tragic… — James Alexander Thom Copy Share Image
“There is no measuring Muad'Dib's motives by ordinary standards. In the moment of his triumph, he saw the death prepared for him,… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety, a wise tolerance - no more, you seem to urge me… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“He had forgotten that God saw through the silk robes to the sinful heart, that the only wealth worth having was treasure… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“It is strange,' he said at last. 'I had longed to enter the world of men. Now I see it filled with… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I am talking about ultimate deceit. I am talking about unparalleled treachery. Bottomless lies. Depths that are seen that are previously unimaginable.… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
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