Treacherous Quotes - Page 6

• It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.

  John Calvin

  Opportunity, Names, Disposition

  John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Psalms 93 - 119 (Annotated Edition)”, p.79, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Every successful artist comes from a family - parents or siblings or both - who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue the treacherous and difficult path of the artist.

  Chris Abani

  Sibling, Successful, Artist

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• Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to change their minds in response to arguments.

  Maurice Bowra

  Mind, Allies, Argument

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• All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous.

  George Herbert

  Strong, Beast, Prey

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.323

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• Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.

  Abraham Cowley

  Dog, Men, Roaring

  Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...”

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• To have a 9-foot sofa in a small room can be kind of treacherous.

  Michael S. Smith

  Small Rooms, Feet, Be Kind

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Frodo drew himself up, and again Sam was startled by his words and his stern voice. 'On the Precious? How dare you?' he said. 'Think! Would you commit your promise to that, Smeagol? It will hold you. But it is more treacherous than you are. It may twist your words. Beware!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Thinking, Voice, Promise

  J.R.R. Tolkien (1973). “The Lord of the Rings part two the Two Towers”

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• Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments.

  David Sheff

  Children, Parent, Moments

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• In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them.

  E. M. Forster

  Beautiful, Men, August

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• And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Mistake, Flower, Past

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.161, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant prison, administered by a collective of loving but treacherous relatives.

  Pat Conroy

  Age, Prison, Collectives

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Weakness

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• Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Water, Storm, Too Late

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• A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.

  Amin Maalouf

  Writing, Taught, Seems

  Amin Maalouf (2001). “In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong”, p.9, Arcade Publishing

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• In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Lying, Color, Perspective

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• A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Mother, Pain

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.36, GENERAL PRESS

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• Yes, yes," said the Beast, "my heart is good, but still I am a monster." Among mankind," says Beauty, "there are many that deserve that name more than you, and I prefer you, just as you are, to those, who, under a human form, hide a treacherous, corrupt, and ungrateful heart.

  Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

  Heart, Names, Ungrateful

  Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont “Beauty and the Beast—La Belle et la Bête English-French Parallel Text Edition”, Lulu.com

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• the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion

  Khaled Hosseini

  Mistake, Past, Illusion

  Khaled Hosseini (2009). “A Thousand Splendid Suns”, p.161, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You three have done quite enough today: all of you and your feckless, treacherous god.

  Janet Morris

  God, Three, Done

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.16, Paradise Publishing

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• Its from the deep waters that we come.
  And we are heartfelt and treacherous like those waters.
  We come with an unflinching devotion to the mystical and to God - representing life and embracing death.

  Lisa Bonet

  Deep Water, Heartfelt, Devotion

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• I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like.

  Albert Einstein

  Reading, Writing, Looks

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.428, Princeton University Press

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• Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amused by what you see and suspect. Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving, capricious and corrupt asshole shouldn't prevent you from enjoying their company, working with them or finding them entertaining.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Jobs, Self, Assuming

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.276, A&C Black

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• An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Heart, Ears, Envious

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.8, University of Illinois Press

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• It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.

  John von Neumann

  Selfish, Law, People

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• ..there she is, and I am watching her through plexiglass, and she looks like Margo Roth Spiegelman, this girl I have known since I was two–this girl who was an idea that I loved. And it is only now, when she closes her notebook and places it inside a backpack next to her and then stands up and walks toward us, that I realize that the idea is not only wrong by dangerous. What a treacherous thing it is to believe that a person is more than a person.

  John Green

  Notebook, Girl, Believe

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