Makers Quote by Jean de La Fontaine

The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this…

— Arthur Koestler

The Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled…

— Barbara Tuchman

To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.

— Ann Radcliffe

There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse,…

— Edmund Burke

No man, or woman, was ever cured of love by discovering the falseness of his or her lover. The living together for three long,…

— Arthur Helps

Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and incensing them…

— Thomas Paine

“money make the world and your family turn”

— Omar Hickman

Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless…

— Samuel Johnson

The false man is more false to himself than to any one else. He may despoil others, but himself is the chief loser. The…

— Horace Mann

English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible,…

— Paul Scott

Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle of every man who hath either religion, honour, or prudence. Thosewho violate it,…

— Lord Chesterfield

Perfidy and brutal force thwarted opportunities for calling President Wilson's Arbitral Award to life. Nevertheless, its significance is not to be underestimated: through that…

— Serzh Sargsyan

John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a promised land…

— Richard Corliss

“Home? What is home? Home is where a house is that you come back to when the rainy season is about to begin, to…

— Cornell Woolrich

I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end, impaling themselves…

— Salman Rushdie