Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger. — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions. — Wilhelm II Copy Share Image
What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness. — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young? — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Only by an act of treachery to those who believe in us can either of us escape.” — Nevil Shute 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
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 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
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
“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
What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing… — George Orwell 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
It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It is at the family fireside, often under the shelter of the law itself, that the real tragedies of life are acted;… — Émile Gaboriau Copy Share Image
The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of… — Tennessee Celeste Claflin Copy Share Image
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. These may, perhaps, succeed for once, and borrow… — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend… — Farid al-Din Attar Copy Share Image
“He had forgotten that God saw through the silk robes to the sinful heart, that the only wealth worth having was treasure… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety, a wise tolerance - no more, you seem to urge me… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“There is no measuring Muad'Dib's motives by ordinary standards. In the moment of his triumph, he saw the death prepared for him,… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“treachery, weakness, envy, fanaticism—the most destructive forces available to man.” — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Its funny when people recently change their attitude to gain entrance into your heart, which may only ignite your passion to close… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“I'd be glad of a retaliation that wouldn't recoil on myself; but treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends: they… — Emily Bronte 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
I'm fucking sick of all the lies and all the treachery I was always by your side and this is how you… — Chelsea Grin Copy Share Image
And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Of course he could see only blackness, such was the treachery of fire, which iluminated small circles by darkening the entire world.” — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to… — Ashraf Dehghani Copy Share Image
“This is treachery, to change faith in accord with shifting fortune. The justice of my cause impelled me to withstand even adverse… — Ulrich von Hutten Copy Share Image
Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor… — Florence King 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
“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which… — George Orwell Copy Share Image