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
We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort… — Michel de Montaigne 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
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
Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery. — Molly Haskell 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
[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
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
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. — Demosthenes 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
“The salpinx is not simply an instrument of summoning. It is also an instrument of binding. Since you followed its sorrowful tones… — Frank Lambert Copy Share Image
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 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
“The solid earth sways like the treacherous sea beneath the feet of men and spirits alike when the innocent are slain in… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of… — Bertrand Russell 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