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Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny. -- Pierre Corneille
It should be known that Israel is based on treachery. -- Bashar al-Assad
Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance. -- David Mamet
Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself. -- Livy
We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel. -- Bashar al-Assad
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. -- Benjamin Franklin
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery. -- Aeschylus
Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity. -- Jose Marti
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
While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security. -- Ann Coulter
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
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
May the United Nations ever be vigilant and potent to defeat the swallowing up of any nation, at any time, by any means-by armies with banners, by force or by fraud, by tricks or by midnight treachery. -- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill -- Fausto Coppi
Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skills. -- Ioan Gruffudd
There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery. -- Ouida
To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm. -- William Shakespeare
It seems to me a fundamental dishonesty, and a fundamental treachery to intellectual integrity to hold a belief because you think it's useful and not because you think it's true. -- Bertrand Russell
The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy. -- David Hume
He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed. -- George Orwell
Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness -- by making the ultimate escape from life. -- No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it. -- Dag Hammarskjold
The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Always will we remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.... we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but will make very certain that this form of treachery shall never endanger us again. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God! -- Charles Dickens
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
Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies. -- Emily Bronte
In terms of actual audience numbers, I honestly had no idea what to expect [with 'Treachery' ]. It was, after all, not a superhero title. -- Peter David
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
And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery. -- Vince Cable
I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally. -- Bharati Mukherjee
The wounds of calumny, the reproaches of the proud, the venom of the bigoted, the treachery of the false, and the weakness of the true, we have known in our measure; and therein have had communion with our Lord Jesus. -- Charles Spurgeon
I say, traitors; as some men live upon the reward of treachery, for their quiet and liberty; if it may be called a liberty, as it is redeemed with the betraying of the interest of Christ, and the blood of His people. -- Donald Cargill
Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood. -- John Edward Redmond
Some friendship is closely akin to treachery. -- Robert N. Lee
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill! -- Tamora Pierce
Horses are far worse than men for treachery... -- James Clavell
When it comes to treachery, he is implacable. -- Paulo Coelho
We've seen firsthand the footprints of the Mordant's treachery. -- Karen Azinger
We've seen firsthand the footprints of the Mordant's treachery." -- Karen Azinger
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief -- Publilius Syrus
How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it. -- Margaret Atwood
Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Fear is the white lipp'd sire Of subterfuge and treachery. -- Lydia Sigourney
There was no treachery too base for the world to commit. -- Virginia Woolf
The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe. -- Hannah Kent
Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses. -- Dean Koontz
Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper
The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel. -- Brenna Yovanoff
The worst thing thou has to fear is the treachery of thine own heart. -- Charles Spurgeon
Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery -- Mario Puzo
It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. -- Demosthenes
I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body. -- Ernest Hemingway
There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm? -- Mahatma Gandhi
Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery: -- Alexander Cockburn
There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship. -- George MacDonald Fraser
Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young? -- Winifred Holtby
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don't have brains enough to be honest. -- Benjamin Franklin
The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit anotherÂ´s treachery. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays -- Francis Bacon
Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well. -- Florence King
What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it -- Jacqueline Carey
A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery." -- Aeschylus
Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness. -- Alice Munro
Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery. -- Molly Haskell
The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions. -- Wilhelm II
there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day -- Charles Bukowski
Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery. -- Olusegun Obasanjo
Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery. -- Neil Kinnock
The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure. -- William Hazlitt
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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Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery -- Bertrand Russell
Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery. -- Bertrand Russell
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
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
I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless. -- John Lyly
Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor. -- Florence King
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
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
Because a sound tree doesn't have bad roots, Amara. No enterprise of greatness begins with treachery, with lying to the people who trust and love you -- Jim Butcher
THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world. -- Robin Hobb
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
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
Most of the verses written about praise in God's Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations. -- Joni Eareckson Tada
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. -- Robert Payne
The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny. -- Edmund Burke
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
When an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could use more of that kind of "treachery". -- Ray McGovern
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
To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the symbol of all vileness, meanness, treachery, falsehood and oppression. -- Aleister Crowley
May God have mercy on my soul for the deaths on my name and for the treachery I committed. Betrayal of God and country, what a sad and horrible thing it is. -- E. Howard Hunt
A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery. -- Vladimir Lenin
Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by. -- Mark Twain
[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitorâ??s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards. -- C. S. Lewis
Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Truth gathers itself spotless and unhurt after all our surrenders and concealments and partisanship; never hurt by the treachery or ruin of its best defenders, whether Luther, or William Penn, or St. Paul. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly. -- Samuel Johnson
We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways. -- Michel de Montaigne
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

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