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Quotes About Treachery

Hell's bells, I snarled, taking an involuntary step back. Right here? Now? You could have given me a couple of minutes to get clear, dammit. And what fun would that be? Maeve asked, pushing out her lower lip in a pout. I am who I am, too. I love violence. I love treachery. I love your pain - and the best part, the part I love most, is that I am doing it for your own good. Her eyes gleamed white all the way around her irises. This is me being one of the good guys.
~ Jim Butcher
There are stories everywhere; in the air; the food you eat; in the embers of the fire. […] This is my story; the story of the land-folk and the seal-folk, a story of love, and of treachery, and of the call of the ocean.
~ Joanne Harris
Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader
~ Douglas Jerrold
To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal.
~ Malcolm X
A snake lurks in the grass.
~ Virgil
They'd poisoned me, dammit. Probably to trade my dead body to the barbarians for Wulfgar's safe return. Or maybe just for the fun of it.
~ Vivian Vande Velde
Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.
~ Edmund Burke
Take a sip from the cup of death... And when you're shaking my right hand, I'll stab you with the left.
~ Ol' Dirty Bastard
Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
~ Jose Marti
To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal.
~ Malcolm X
And how long will the American people stand for this treachery perpetrated by their elected president? How long will Americans remain asleep while their cherished Constitution is torn to shreds by the fascist fifth column of the Republican right marching under the sign of the cross and the flag?
~ Philip Roth
What is the archetypal Bible story? A story of betrayal. Of treachery. It's just one deception after another.
~ Philip Roth
When they launch snakes you'll have your namesake.
~ Philippa Gregory
would kill them at once, and blame it on Richard. If he found my sons alive, he
~ Philippa Gregory
Treachery can't be forgiven. Michael could have forgiven it, but people never forgive themselves and so they would always be dangerous.
~ Unknown
Of course he could see only blackness, such was the treachery of fire, which iluminated small circles by darkening the entire world.
~ R. Scott Bakker
Malevolence and paranoia cohabit in a twisted mind. Bad men trust no one because they know the treachery of which they themselves are capable.
~ Dean Koontz
Malevolence and paranoia cohabit in a twisted mind. Bad men trust no one because they know the treachery of which they themselves are capable. After
~ Dean Koontz
no one would believe the goblins were eventually going to attempt to kill her.
~ Dean Koontz
As I leaned against the wall, trembling in the shadows, the door to the Governor's quarters opened, and the Governor came out, returning to his party. His face was flushed and his eyes shone. I could at that moment easily have murdered him, had I anything more lethal than a hairpin to hand.
~ Diana Gabaldon
A man may smile, and smile, and be a villain
~ Diana Gabaldon
I had rather be plundered by my enemies than by my friends.
~ Henry IV
Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery.
~ Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.