Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of… — Robert Payne Copy Share Image
“Treachery is always a hairy caterpillar bred of a small butterfly called envy, no matter how lofty the principles involved.” — Fazil Iskander Copy Share Image
I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which… — John Lyly Copy Share Image
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to… — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome… — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I would injure no man, and should provoke no resentment. I would relieve every distress, and should enjoy the benedictions of gratitude.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But would we know, whether the pretended prophet had really attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to his narration;… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I do business with many people over the course of centuries, and treachery is a bad long-term investment. It simply isn’t good… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends, and then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends?" "Again, human nature. Hoping… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
If by reaction you mean critical reaction, I was confident that we were putting out a quality book [ Treachery]. So I… — Peter David Copy Share Image
Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“An ESS is stable, not because it is particularly good for the individuals participating in it, but simply because it is immune… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Murphy nodded, frowning at the road ahead of her. "The reason treachery is so reveiled," she said in a careful tone of… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is always the threat of tomorrow's treachery, or next year's treachery, or the treachery implicit in all the tomorrows beyond that. — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“When I was a fighting-man, the kettle-drums they beat; The people scattered gold-dust before my horse's feet; But now I am a… — Robert E Howard Copy Share Image
My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourself… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Amid the moon and the stars, amid the clouds of the night, amid the hills which bordered on the sky with their… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred… — John Edward Redmond Copy Share Image