Treachery Quotes

• If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Trust
  • Reward
  • Treachery

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

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Men
  • Treachery
  • Tongues

• We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Israel
  • Dealing
  • Treachery

• It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Should
  • Israel
  • Treachery

• Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Simple
  • Destiny
  • Luck

• The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Hypocrisy
  • Treachery
  • Betrays

• Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Violence
  • Enemies
  • Wound

• Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill

  

  Fausto Coppi
  • Skill
  • Overcome
  • Treachery

• I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Possibility
  • Election

• Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!)

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Treachery
  • Brutes
  • Brutus

• The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel.

  

  Brenna Yovanoff
  • Angel
  • Betrayal
  • Demons

• This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Excuse
  • Journalist
  • Kills

• This was no friendship, to forsake your friend, To promise your support and at the end Abandon him-this was sheer treachery. Friend follows friend to hell and blasphemy- When sorrow comes one's true friends are found; In times of joy ten thousand gather round.

  

  Farid al-Din Attar
  • Friendship
  • Promise
  • Sorrow

• The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Silence
  • Daring
  • Behalf

• I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Hate
  • Body
  • Cramps

• Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

  

  Winifred Holtby
  • Time
  • Burden
  • Treachery

• Our King Jesus is accused of treachery; it is said of him by the Muslims that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Jesus
  • Muslims
  • Pretended

• We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.

  

  Heinz Guderian
  • Country
  • Reality
  • Military

• A man who becomes used to deluding himself, who fails to face his own faults with revolutionary honesty and even lies to himself, is the most likely to become a traitor, since lying is the beginning of treachery.

  

  Ashraf Dehghani
  • Beginning
  • Lying
  • Treachery

• ... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Trust
  • Thank God
  • Treachery

• When Ling was communicating to any person the signs by which messengers might find him, he was compelled to add, "the neighbourhood in which this contemptible person resides is that officially known as 'the mean quarter favoured by the lower class of those who murder by treachery'," and for this reason he was not always treated with the regard to which his attainments entitled him, or which he would have unquestionably received had he been able to describe himself as of "the partly-drained and uninfected area reserved to Mandarins and their friends.

  

  Ernest Bramah
  • Friends
  • Murder
  • Neighborhood