Treachery Quotes · Page 3

“Do you think treachery begins in the deed, my friend?”

— Paul S. Kemp

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

— Alice Munro

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

— George MacDonald Fraser

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

— Mario Puzo

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

— Ernest Hemingway

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no…

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— A.H. Septimius

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

— Demosthenes

To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it

— Jacqueline Carey

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

— Peter David

May God have mercy on my soul for the deaths on my name and for the treachery I committed. Betrayal of God…

— E. Howard Hunt

Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who…

— Jim Butcher

Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

— Anais Nin

The only use for a knife during a shark attack is pure treachery: Stab your buddy, swim like hell, and hope the…

— Tim Cahill

Oh, dear me." Nathalie sank back down in the chair and examined her Uggs. "The sarcasm could've started dripping off her and…

— Lilith Saintcrow

In life the turn coat (traitor) is never trustworthy by either side. The one that he betrayed will hate him and the…

— Artur Pawlowski

Always will we remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without…

— Benjamin Harvey Hill

Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic…

— George Orwell

“This short history should have something to satisfy every taste and perversion: action, treachery, fratricide and regicide, corruption, and bloodshed. It contains…

— R.A. Lafferty

The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be…

— J. M. Coetzee

Christianity does not want us to reduce by one atom the hatred we feel for cruelty and treachery. We ought to hate…

— Anonymous

Chelsea Manning's treachery put American lives at risk and exposed some of our nation's most sensitive secrets. President Obama now leaves in…

— Paul Ryan

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

— Aeschylus

We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

— Bashar al-Assad

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

— Anonymous

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

— Anonymous

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

— Jose Marti

“In a world so full of treachery, that was worth a few kisses.”

— George R.R. Martin

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

— Brenna Yovanoff

“We've seen firsthand the footprints of the Mordant's treachery.”

— Karen Azinger

“Your treachery is what I have come to expect. And my heart, you never deserved its affection.”

— Joel T. McGrath

Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses.

— Dean Koontz

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

— Alexander Cockburn

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

— Molly Haskell

Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.

— Florence King

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Treachery has existed as long as theres been warfare, and theres always been a few people that you couldnt trust.

— James Mattis