Quotes About Treachery

Beauty wasn't the treachery he imagined it to be, rather it was an uncharted land where one could make a thousand fatal errors, a wild and indifferent paradise without signposts of evil or good.

Treachery it was, the theft of immortality. A dark Prometheus stealing a luminescent fire. Laughter in the darkness. Laughter echoing in the catacomb. Echoing as if down the centuries.

He should have known someone like Lucien de Malheur would offer no loyalty, no male solidarity.

This man was truly like a scorpion, a poisonous sting when one least expected it.

Betrayal was the name of the game—to get what he'd have, to use every weapon in his arsenal

I suppose I should just be thankful that since you are so much given to treachery, you're so reassuringly inept at it.

Please nothing, she's a vicious piranha. She looks all cute and cuddly, then she opens that mouth and lets loose so much venom she could double as a nest of scorpions. (Leo)

Trust no one at your back unless you want them to bury a knife in it.' (Syn)

Beware the viper in your closet. Isn't that another thing you're always saying, Father? Ambition and jealousy are at the heart of all betrayals. (Ryssa)

I can't believe you were going to call me a liar and take my place under the guillotine. Next time I try to save you, woman, you better stay saved. (Fury)

Just in my experience, all people do is take. None of them give a damn about helping someone else. (Aiden) And sometimes people can surprise you. (Leta) Yeah. You're right. I'm constantly amazed by the unprovoked treachery they're capable of. (Aiden)

I didn't know they'd do this to you. (Syd) It's okay, Syd. Who could have imagined that a man who heads up a company of paid assassins and mercenaries would be psychotic? (Steele)

man who breaks his oath, who turns traitor once, can always do the same thing again.

Morton and the rest of the conspirators, around eighty in all, came up the main staircase

There's enough blindness and treachery in the high places without ordinary people turning to hatred and stupid cant.

It was Robert Poley who unhooded Will, much later in a candlelit room with an arrow slit that show only blackness but admitted the stink of the Thames.

The pirates could probably follow or at least locate us even while we were in white space, which nobody else could manage. So they had better ways to track us than by tryingto hack the interstellar mail tracelessly (that last word is key)-which even Singer wasn't sure he could manage, as the minds that ran it were big and old and wise in the ways of logistics and treachery, as well as having abundant cycles to play with.

You dirty, double-crossing rat.

Millennia of servitude, Abhorsen. Chained by trickery, treachery... captivenin a repulsive, fixed-flesh shape...but there will be payment, slow payment —not quick, not quick at all!

Speak we now of wicked counsel, for he who gives wicked counsel is a traitor. He deceives the one who trusted in him, as Achitophel did unto Absalom. But, nevertheless, his wicked counsel is first against himself. For, as says the Wise Man, "Every deceitful liar has this property in himself: that he who would harm another man, he harms himself first.

Take heed, you bear in mind the piety you owe unto your country and unto your fellow countrymen, whose slaughter by the treachery of the Payneham shall be unto your disgrace everlasting. Unless you press hardily forward to defend them. Fight therefore for your country, and if it be that death overtake you, suffer it willingly for your country's sake. For death itself is victory, and a healing unto the soul.

Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time.

Nina," Luke said finally. "Nina was the other traitor." "Yes," Mr. Talbot said.

Any man can turn traitor.