Quotes About Treachery

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

After more than a thousand years," he continued, "an enemy finally broke through. Not because of superior firepower. Not because the Manchus were better fighters or strategists. They weren't. The Manchus breached the Great Wall and took Beijing because someone opened a gate. From the inside. As simple as that. A general, a traitor, let them in and an empire fell.

Vengence, betrayal, and love they all are synonyms for the same word: fake.

Even the most unlikely person can stab you from the back.

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.

The worst kinds of enemies are those who pretend to be your friends.

Writing was bad for the soul when you got right down to it. It protected your worst tendencies. Narrowed everything to failure and its devastations. Gave your cunning an edge of treachery and your jellyfish heart a reason to fall deeper into silence.

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

The stool pigeon is the coming race.

So get you gone out of my presence, miserable traitors as you are.

To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting

The prophet Habakkuk lived in a time that was much like ours. He, too, asked Hashem, 'Why do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?' And you know Hashem's reply as well as I do: 'The righteous shall live by his faith.

Satan wants us to sneak things in secret.

Another U.S. official disturbed by the prospect of a Washington-Tokyo truce was the Treasury's Harry Dexter White. "Persons in our government," White declaimed, "are hoping to betray the cause of the heroic Chinese people.

He used simple words and did not hesitate to tell what he later described as "colossal untruths." He sought to incite hatred toward those he considered traitors—the "November criminals" whose treachery had cost Germany the war—and he returned each day to what Nietzsche had called the ideology "of those who feel cheated": anti-Semitism.

History is littered with rulers and their rivals brought down by poison.

Accepting the sadness. Knowing that to pretend it was all gay was treachery. Treachery to everyone sad at the moment, everyone ever sad, treachery to such music, such truth.

And it's often the one you trust the most who'll cut your throat for the right price.

Darnley's dagger was left in the corpse, to signify his connivance in the plot.

Huntly had planned to attack the town, burn down the house where he was staying and assassinate Maitland in his sleep.

was a slap in the face for Mary by her own side.

and Mary was to lure Darnley to his fate at Kirk o'Field.

She turned next to Moray's base in Fife, cutting his supply lines.

Meanwhile, Darnley was furiously plotting against his wife.