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Quotes About Treachery

the treachery of the Inhumane society was controlled by one man. As a brilliant scientist, he could have saved the town, but instead he fed on the loneliness and discontent of the fading town, and pushed people in the direction hw thought was right.
~ Lemony Snicket
I wondered if villainy was like Armstrong Feint, someone once kind and gentle who lowered himself into treachery, or more like a mysterious beast, hidden in the depths and summoned to wickedness. But all these questions seemed wrong. They weren't my job. Like Hector and Widdershins, like Josephine and Monty and the rest of my associates, my job was not to ask questions about villainy, but to try and repair its damage.
~ Lemony Snicket
Count Olaf, like any good businessman, has committed a wide variety of crimes.
~ Lemony Snicket
You can't live far from the treachery of the world, because eventually the treachery will wash up on your shores.
~ Lemony Snicket
If there is one thing I've learned from the years in the criminal enterprises, it's that anyone can do almost anything to anybody else for any reason, and villainy and treachery doesn't have a thing to do with race, sex, species, or creed.
~ Tim Pratt
Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.
~ Timothy Snyder
Before the snow could melt for good, an ice storm covered the lowcountry and we learned the deeper treachery of ice. At night, we could hear the disconsolate sounds of trees breaking under the weight of their glistening unnatural burden. Limbs broke with a terrifying violence, like the snapping of healthy bones.
~ Pat Conroy
Beautiful cities have a treacherous nature.
~ Pat Conroy
Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skills.
~ Ioan Gruffudd
It was as though, so long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice, since all people are cowards and naturally prefer any kind of treachery because it has a bland outside.
~ William Faulkner
conceive that the people of America, in their present temper, or under any circumstances which can speedily happen, will choose, and every second year repeat the choice of, sixty-five or a hundred men who would be disposed to form and pursue a scheme of tyranny or treachery
~ William J. Bennett
There is a common medieval literary trope, and some actual cases, of enemies being invited to a meal to make peace, and then being killed while eating and drinking; it may have been a sensible strategy, for people's guards were down, but it was very dishonourable indeed.
~ Chris Wickham
Thor spake: "In a single breast I never have seen More wealth of wisdom old; But with treacherous wiles must I now betray thee: The day has cought thee dwarf! (Now the sun shines here in the hall.)
~ Henry Adams Bellows (trans.)
In a single breast I never have seen More wealth of wisdom old; But with treacherous wiles must I now betray thee: The day has cought thee dwarf! (Now the sun shines here in the hall.)
~ Henry Adams Bellows (trans.)
In a single breast I never have seen More wealth of wisdom old; But with treacherous wiles must I now betray thee: The day has caught thee, dwarf! (Now the sun shines here in the hall.)
~ Henry Adams Bellows (trans.)
Fraud and falsehood are his weak and treacherous allies; and he lurks trembling in the dark, dreading every ray of light, lest it should discover him, and give him up to shame and punishment.
~ Henry Fielding
I am talking about ultimate deceit. I am talking about unparalleled treachery. Bottomless lies. Depths that are seen that are previously unimaginable. Darkness and shattering despair that could break bones. Paranoia and horror that could stop the heart cold. All inflicted on one's self by one's self. The soul turns schizophrenic and goes hopelessly insane.
~ Henry Rollins
A menudo el énfasis en la lealtad delata al traidor.
~ Javier Cercas
By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.
~ Jeanette Winterson
There are different sorts of treachery, but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it. She burnt a lot more than the letters that night in the backyard. I don't think she knew. In her head she was still queen, but not my queen any more, not the White Queen any more. Walls protect and walls limit. It is in the nature of walls that they should fall. That walls should fall is the consequence of blowing your own trumpet.
~ Jeanette Winterson
There are different kinds of treachery but betrayal is betrayal wherever you find it.
~ Jeanette Winterson
What I believe does not matter. I want to know, not merely believe. You may very well be innocent, Tiuri, son of Tiuri, but treachery and deceit are often concealed behind an innocent face. -Sir Bendu
~ Unknown
Or was your mission to poison the queen?
~ Tui T. Sutherland
The enemy is not the person standing before you, sword in hand. It is the person standing next to you with a dagger concealed behind his back.
~ Paulo Coelho