Quotes About Treachery

Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.

To console Pippin about the treachery of Gollum, Gandalf reminds him that "a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend" (3.89).

There are one hundred and ninety ways of being a bastard and Carne knew all of them.

You know what they say: 'Men have throats and daggers have sharp edges'.

Hou hou, la salope, qu'ils criaient, oh le vilain dégonflé, le foireux lardé, la porcine lope, le pétochard affreux, le patriote mauvais, le marcassin maudit, la teigne vilaine, le pleutre éhonté, le poplican félon, la mauviette pouilleuse, le crassou poltron, l'ord couard, le traître pleutre qui veut laisser le tombeau de sire Jésus aux mains des païens et qui répond mal à son roi. Vive Louis de Poissy! Hou hou, la salope.

There is no curse in Elvish, Entish or the tongues of Men for this treachery!

As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.

Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.

There's daggers in men's smiles.

Horses are far worse than men for treachery.

An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

Any man can turn traitor.

My dear, treacherous mother, " he breathed. "What have you done?

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

If by reaction you mean critical reaction, I was confident that we were putting out a quality book [ Treachery]. So I was reasonably sure that we'd get positive notices.

What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew.

A soothsayer bids you beware the Ides of March." —Brutus to Julius Caesar, Act I, Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare, circa 1600

Look: if a bird were to rub its beak on a limb, you'd hear it—sure—and if a piece of water were to move an unaccustomed way, you'd feel it—that's right—and if a fox were to steal a hen, you'd see-you'd see it—even in the middle of the night; but, heaven help you, if a friend a friend—god—were to slit your throat with his—his love—hoh, you'd bleed a week to notice it.

This was Khalil's doing, and Josh's, and the three nations that could find no better way than stealing her.

The adults as a rule came into the slave-sticks from treachery, and had never been slaves before. Very often the Arabs would promise a present of dried fish to villagers if they would act as guides to some distant point, and as soon as they were far enough away from their friends they were seized and pinned into the yoke from which there is no escape. These

The adults as a rule came into the slave-sticks from treachery, and had never been slaves before. Very often the Arabs would promise a present of dried fish to villagers if they would act as guides to some distant point, and as soon as they were far enough away from their friends they were seized and pinned into the yoke from which there is no escape.

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.