Treachery Quotes

• Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Practice, Political, Deception

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• There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

  Ouida

  Cutting, Knives, Blades

  Ouida (1890*). “Puck. In Maremma”

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• I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

  Aeschylus

  Hate, Disease, Traitor

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• Every evil screams only one message: 'I am good.'

  Alexander Schmemann

  Christian, Duplicity, Evil

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• Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Incapacity, Cunning, Offspring

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• Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill

  Fausto Coppi

  Skills, Age, Overcoming

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• 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, Say Anything, Daring

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1465, Delphi Classics

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• The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.

  Hannah Kent

  Foe

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.122, Pan Macmillan

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• 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

  Honesty, Lying, Men

  "Torture & Resistance in Iran: Memoirs of the Woman Guerrilla Ashraf Dehghani". Book by Ashraf Dihqani, 1978.

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• Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.

  Livy

  Firsts, Ends, Betray

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 811-812), 1922.

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

  Francis Bacon

  Lying, Hypocrisy, Lasts

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

  Winifred Holtby

  Time, Age, Finals

  Winifred Holtby (2011). “South Riding”, p.164, Random House

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• The treacheries of ambition never cease.

  Ruben Dario

  Ambition, Cease

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• Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief

  Publilius Syrus

  Grief, Tears, Ready

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• Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

  Pierre Corneille

  Tyrants, Noble, Tyranny

  "Character: Émilie". "Cinna" by Pierre Corneille, act III, scene iv, 1641.

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• Falsehood is never better than truth, theft better than honesty, treachery better than loyalty, cowardice better than courage.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Loyalty, Honesty, Cowardice

  Harry Emerson Fosdick (1952). “A faith for tough times”

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

  Brenna Yovanoff

  Betrayal, Angel, Satanic

  Brenna Yovanoff (2012). “Smoulder”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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• To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.

  William Shakespeare

  Hail, Masters, Harm

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.692, BookCaps Study Guides

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• 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

  Form, Cases, Position

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• Politicians nowadays treat Americans like medical orderlies treat Alzheimer's patients, telling them anything that will keep them subdued. It doesn't matter what untruths the people are fed because they will not long remember. But in politics, forgotten falsehoods almost guarantee new treachery.

  James Bovard

  Alzheimer's, Long, People

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• Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Skills, Proof, Tricks

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• 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

  Good Luck, Simple, Destiny

  Joseph Heller (1997). “God Knows”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fall, Errors, Giving

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.23

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• 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

  Secret, Guilt, Secrecy

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• Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.

  Florence King

  Hate, People, Insecurity

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