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Tag Name "Treachery" (83)

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Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.
Pierre Corneille
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Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.
James Mattis
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There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
Virginia Woolf
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The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.
Wilhelm II
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Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?
William Shakespeare
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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
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Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.
Molly Haskell
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Chelsea Manning's treachery put American lives at risk and exposed some of our nation's most sensitive secrets. President Obama now leaves in place a dangerous precedent that those who compromise our national security won't be held accountable for their crimes.
Paul Ryan
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If by reaction you mean critical reaction, I was confident that we were putting out a quality book [ Treachery]. So I was reasonably sure that we'd get positive notices.
Peter David
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The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter s!
Stanislaw Lem
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The only use for a knife during a shark attack is pure treachery: Stab your buddy, swim like hell, and hope the munchies take him.
Tim Cahill
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Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends. And then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my end. It wasn't the goodwill I felt that made someone a friend. What handy day, the one I learned the meaning of the word. How good to know my enemies (though their reasons are absurd!)
Vanna Bonta
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I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
Aeschylus
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If all we've got to look forward to is disloyalty and treachery, why do we even make friends? Again, human nature. Hoping for the best is what drives us.
Gena Showalter
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Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery.
Alexander Cockburn
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What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.
George Orwell
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One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
Anais Nin
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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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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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
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There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
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