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Quotes About Treachery

The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accurst.
~ James Russell Lowell
Lia caught sight of it immediately and glared at him. "You gave me your word. You swore you wouldn't tell him.""I'm a mass murderer, " he said pointedly. "Not exactly trustworthy.
~ M. Kane, Queen of Thieves
The treacherous are ever distrustful.
~ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
But something worse can happen to the person who is betrayed." "What? What could possibly happen to me that is worse?" The older man stared at the younger, and then said pityingly, "You may learn treachery from it.
~ Jane Jakeman
The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.
~ Aldrich Ames
Why, on to the castle, to kill the royal family, and claim the throne that isn't mine by right!
~ Richard Curtis
The suitors: a hundred of the greediest, evilest cut-throats who'd ever lived.
~ Rick Riordan
I suppose I do not on the whole greatly admire the 'Tortoises' of this world. While one may appreciate their plodding steadiness and ability to survive, one suspects their lack of frankness, their capacity for treachery. And I suppose, in the end, one despises their unwillingness to take chances in the name of ambition or for the sake of a principle they claim to believe in.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I suppose I do not on the whole greatly admire the Tortoises of this world. While one may appreciate their plodding steadiness and ability to survive, one suspects their lack of frankness, their capacity for treachery. And I suppose, in the end, one despises their unwillingness to take chances in the name of ambition or for the sake of a principle they claim to believe in.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Derek picked the spot? Had he been hoping I'd be blinded by the morning sun and stumble off the edge?
~ Kelley Armstrong
He had forgotten that God saw through the silk robes to the sinful heart, that the only wealth worth having was treasure in heaven, and that even the king had to kneel down in church. Feeling that everyone else was so much more powerful and sophisticated than he was, he had lost sight of his true values, suspended his critical faculties, and placed his trust in his superiors. His reward had been treachery.
~ Ken Follett
Feeling that everyone else was so much more powerful and sophisticated than he was, he had lost sight of his true values, suspended his critical faculties, and placed his trust in his superiors. His reward had been treachery. He
~ Ken Follett
All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.
~ Park Geun-hye
Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they say"I'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is.Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear
~ St. Vincent
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Swell, bosom, with thy fraught,For 'tis of aspics' tongues!
~ William Shakespeare
We have seen the best of our time: machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves.
~ William Shakespeare
I found you as a morsel, cold uponDead Caesar's trencher.
~ William Shakespeare
I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.
~ William Shakespeare
She was as false as water.
~ William Shakespeare
There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark,But he's an arrant knave.
~ William Shakespeare
Therefore think him as a serpent's eggWhich, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow mischievous,And kill him in the shell.
~ William Shakespeare
O conspiracy!Sham'st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night,When evils are most free?
~ William Shakespeare
How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!
~ William Shakespeare