Quotes About Treachery

Caleb aveva pensato spesso con un sorriso che se Giulio Cesare fosse stato un cane, a tradirlo sarebbe stato Silent Joe.

a wife and numerous progeny. The Judge was at a meeting of the Raisin Growers' Association, and the boys were busy organizing an athletic club, on the memorable night of Manuel's treachery. No one saw him and Buck go off through the orchard on what Buck imagined was merely a stroll. And with the exception of a solitary man, no one saw them arrive at the little flag station known as College Park. This man talked with Manuel, and money chinked

Horses are far worse than men for treachery...

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

A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

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

Cut Men's throats with whisperings.

Thus," said she, "shall be treated the deceiver, the traitor, the faithless, the disgraced, and the beardless.

Israelis like to believe, and tell the world, that they were running an "enlightened" or "benign" occupation, qualitatively different from other military occupations the world had seen. The truth was radically different. Like all occupations, Israel's was founded on brute force, repression and fear, collaboration and treachery, beatings and torture chambers, and daily intimidation, humiliation, and manipulation.

that the Kremlin does not serve the interests of the peoples of the world, but makes them serve its own interests; that, with a treachery and hypocrisy without parallel, it makes use of the international working class as a mere pawn in its political intrigues.

Palpatine has the presence of a collapsing star and the consumptive void that results from it. It draws you in. It takes something from you. It is a flensing, frightening force. But Rax stands tall

Una nación puede sobrevivir a sus locos y hasta a sus ambiciosos, pero no puede sobrevivir a la traición intestina

Why wouldn't he recognize that Washington was an operating environment that didn't reward loyalty and courage? It rewarded treachery and self-interest. Adapt or die.

Cui Pyrrhus:  'Referes ergo haec et nuntius ibis Pelidae genitori; illi mea tristia facta degeneremque Neoptolemum narrare memento. Nunc morere.

There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treach ery, and the sacrifice of wealth and chastity which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison.

There was no treachery too base for the world to commit; she knew that. No happiness lasted; she knew that.

Youth and skill will win out every time over age and treachery. True or false? False. Even the best and brightest are regularly eaten alive by politics, intrigue, and plotting.

Cordone, delighted with himself for swindling the gullible Indians out of a fortune in pearls, stood at the railing of his ship smiling down at the pursuers. He was about to order his soldiers to fire upon the Indians when he was struck in the chest by an arrow. He dropped to the deck.

and the priest, Pero Sánchez de la Reina, who had conspired with the Castilian captain.

They even revealed the existence of the plot to Magellan; they confided that if the plot succeded

The Magellan of February teetered on the brink of being murdered by the men he commanded.

Stripped of his command, and having learned nothing from the experience of his failed mutiny, Cartagena grew intensely resentful of his inexperienced replacement. From that moment, he burned with desire for revenge against Magellan, no matter what the cost to the expedition, and as Fonseca's son, Cartagena had power to make great trouble. Of all the perils that Magellan faced on the journey's first leg, the greatest was Cartagena's treachery.