Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Treachery," said the Mede. "Diplomacy," said Attolia, "in my own name.” — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
“This treachery of life is too cunning to be abandoned but the anguish of being in it demands negligence.” — Riyana Baboo Copy Share Image
“A third party in your marriage will do three things to you: Seduce your spouse, wreck your home and take your place.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God! — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“There is different sorts of treachery, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it.” — Winterson Copy Share Image
“Ivy shrugs. “Poisoning is the Marauders’ way. No offense, but feel free to take some.” — S.G. Blaise 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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
Native annalists may look sadly back from the future on that period when we had the atomic bomb and the Russians didn't.… — Curtis LeMay 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
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
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
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
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When Ling was communicating to any person the signs by which messengers might find him, he was compelled to add, "the neighbourhood… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
Though no participator in the joy of more vehement sport, I have a pleasure that I cannot reconcile to my abstract notions… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image