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Quotes About Treachery

He brought them the gold they asked for, but they hung him anyway." "Hanged, Ami. Your father was not a tapestry.
~ George R.R. Martin
We must declare this Snow a traitor and a rebel," agreed Ser Harys Swyft. "The black brothers must remove him." Grand Maester Pycelle nodded ponderously. "I propose that we inform Castle Black that no more men will be sent to them until such time as Snow is gone.
~ George R.R. Martin
Trust would get you killed.
~ George R.R. Martin
His axe took her in the back of the head.
~ George R.R. Martin
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is no moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
~ William Shakespeare
The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.
~ Bette Davis
A plague upon it when thieves cannot be true one to another!
~ William Shakespeare
Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
~ Livy
We are oftener treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
~ La Rochefoucauld
Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
~ Pierre Corneille
What distinguishes war is not that man is slain but that he is slain spoiled crushed by the cruelty the injustice the treachery the murderous hand of man.
~ William Ellery Channing
Blow after blow, some bloody, others a resounding shock to muscle and bone, he felt Robert's fervor until, at last, his misbegotten brother tired and all that remained was for Christian to put his weight and height and strength behind him—to move from sword play to sword lust that he might forever end Robert's treachery and depravity.
~ Tamara Leigh
No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man.
~ Arnold Rothstein
Only by an act of treachery to those who believe in us can either of us escape.
~ Nevil Shute
No sooner were they seated than soldiers issued from secret places and slaughtered Giovanni and the rest.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Ryland lifted his head, his steel gray eyes as cold as ice. Menacing. He didn't try to hide the danger he represented. They had created him, they had betrayed him, and he wanted them to be afraid. There was tremendous satisfaction in knowing they were…and that they had reason to be.
~ Christine Feehan
Heinous Fuckery, most foul!
~ Christopher Moore
Oh, that's heinous fuckery most foul," said Kona.
~ Christopher Moore
The poison dart hidden in the raisin tart. ...
~ Christopher Paolini
This act brought on a crisis in the career of the general commanding. He had asserted from the beginning that the administration was hostile to him; that it had failed in its promises of men and war material; that the President himself had shown duplicity if not treachery in the endeavor to procure the appointment of Benton: and the administration now gave open evidence of its enmity.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
L'italiano è infido, bugiardo, vile, traditore, si trova più a suo agio con il pugnale che con la spade, meglio con il veleno che col farmaco, viscido nella trattativa, coerente solo nel cambiar bandiera a ogni vento.
~ Umberto Eco
perfidious.
~ Victor Hugo
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals nay it is treachery to comrades.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton