Quotes About Treachery

A man can smile and smile and be a villain. Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain. What

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:

Yes; and remember that two-legged crocodiles are more dangerous that the others.

Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery.

You backbiting, poisonous, treacherous, deceitful, wicked, clever girl. If this works I'll buy you a pony.

You backbiting, poisonous, treacherous, deceitful, wicked, clever girl. If this works I'll buy you a pony.

It is better to rely on one's self alone. In my cat-life, all our training is founded on suspicion. I can see that it is just the same in the life of men. Those who confide in others are only betrayed. It is better to keep silent and to be treacherous one's self.

You may need two hands to fight someone, but only one to stab them in the back. (Yarvi)

It was the emotional equivalent of driving a knife into someone's heart, then viciously twisting it to do even more damage.

Nurse: Yet he is found to be treacherous towards his friends. Tutor: And what man is not? dost thou only now know this, that every one lives himself dearer than his neighbour, some indeed with justice, but others even for the sake of gain.

Agamemnon, if you help this man, you help an impious, perjured, and polluted traitor, and by upholding evil soil you own fair name.

Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous.

The betrayal of a friend differs from the treachery of a lover only in the degree of pain, not the kind.

It is strange,' he said at last. 'I had longed to enter the world of men. Now I see it filled with sorrow, with cruelty and treachery, with those who would destroy all around them.' 'Yet, enter it you must,' Gwydion answered, 'for it is a destiny laid on each of us. True, you have seen these things. But there are equal parts of love and joy.

Hamilton did not think Burr would be a harmless, lackadaisical president. "He is sanguine enough to hope everything, daring enough to attempt everything, wicked enough to scruple nothing," Hamilton told Gouverneur Morris. From his legal practice, Hamilton knew that Burr had exorbitant debts and might be susceptible to bribes from foreign governments. He briefed Federalists about the scandals involving Burr and the Holland Company and the gross trickery behind the Manhattan Company.

Andrea was not very handsome, the hideous scoundrel

Death to the traitors! To the gallows with Cornelius de Witt! Death! death!

How was it that no one had ever told her that it was not love itself, but its treacherous gatekeepers which made the greatest demands on your courage: the panic of acknowledging it; the terror of declaring it; the fear of being rebuffed? Why had no one told her that love's twin was not hate but cowardice?

Good treachery takes effort.

Only the direction of the treason had changed.

With friends like that, who needs enemies?

I slid my hand back down his leg to his boot to get hold of the wire. Hood leaned down, and whispered, "Kug, that feels good, turns me on." What an asshole! I found his laces and sure enough, on his left leg, the one bent back, was a trip wire.

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

Strong sun, that bleach The curtains of my room, can you not render Colourless this dress I wear?— This violent plaid Of purple angers and red shames; the yellow stripe Of thin but valid treacheries; the flashy green of kind deeds done Through indolence, high judgments given in haste; The recurring checker of the serious breach of taste?