Treachery Quotes · Page 3

Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Only by an act of treachery to those who believe in us can either of us escape.”

— Nevil Shute

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

— Alice Munro

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

— Winifred Holtby

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.

— Wilhelm II

Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.

— Anonymous

Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery.

— Olusegun Obasanjo

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

— Peter David

To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the…

— Aleister Crowley

The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the…

— Edmund Burke

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

To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted…

— Samuel Johnson

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

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

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the…

— Honore de Balzac

I would injure no man, and should provoke no resentment. I would relieve every distress, and should enjoy the benedictions of gratitude.…

— Samuel Johnson

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

But would we know, whether the pretended prophet had really attained a just sentiment of morals? Let us attend to his narration;…

— David Hume

Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every…

— Jane Porter

So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or…

— Virginia Woolf

Amid the moon and the stars, amid the clouds of the night, amid the hills which bordered on the sky with their…

— Yukio Mishima

Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from…

— Philip Pullman

“My dear, treacherous mother,” he breathed. “What have you done?”

— Grace Draven

“The treachery of a friend is worse than the treachery of an enemy.”

— Kevin Crossley-Holland

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

— Benjamin Franklin

To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.

— William Shakespeare

There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

— Ouida

The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“I love the juice but I loathe sticky fingers. Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your hands are clean.”

— George R.R. Martin

“Ivy shrugs. “Poisoning is the Marauders’ way. No offense, but feel free to take some.”

— S.G. Blaise

there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day

— Charles Bukowski

“There is different sorts of treachery, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it.”

— Winterson

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

— Charles Dickens

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

— Emily Bronte

“Treachery," said the Mede. "Diplomacy," said Attolia, "in my own name.”

— Megan Whalen Turner

“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

“This treachery of life is too cunning to be abandoned but the anguish of being in it demands negligence.”

— Riyana Baboo