Treachery Quotes - Page 5

• Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness.

  Alice Munro

  Sides, Patterns, Pot

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.155, Vintage

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• He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices; a private citizen without wrong; a neighbor without reproach; a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was a Caesar, without his ambition; Frederick, without his tyranny; Napoleon, without his selfishness, and Washington, without his reward.

  Benjamin Harvey Hill

  Christian, Hate, Ambition

  Benjamin Harvey Hill (1891). “Senator Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia: His Life, Speeches and Writings”

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• 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

  Loyalty, Dark, Night

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• My loving people, we have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourself to armed multitudes for fear of treachery; but I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any Prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm.

  Elizabeth I

  Kings, Heart, Thinking

  Speech to the Troops at Tilbury, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. August 19, 1588.

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• Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Gossip, Despair, Psychopathology

  Alexander Cockburn (1988). “Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era”, p.185, Verso

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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

  Degrees, Apathy, Next

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• Horses are far worse than men for treachery.

  James Clavell

  Horse, Men

  JAMES CLAVELL (1975). “SHOGUN”

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• Journalists justify their treachery in various ways according to their temperaments. The more pompous talk about freedom of speech and ‘the public’s right to know’; the least talented talk about Art; the seemliest murmur about earning a living.

  Janet Malcolm

  Art, Freedom Of Speech, Earning

  Janet Malcolm (2011). “The Journalist And The Murderer”, p.14, Granta Books

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• The worst thing thou has to fear is the treachery of thine own heart.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Worst, Worst Things

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1963). “The New Park Street Pulpit: Containing Sermons Preached and Revised”

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• 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

  Dream, America, Race

  "American Dreamer". www.motherjones.com. January/February 1997.

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• When it comes to treachery, he is implacable.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspiration

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• 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

  Country, War, Tyrants

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• 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, True Friend, Support

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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

  Men, Desire, Language

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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

  Solitude, Infidelity, Adultery

  Molly Haskell (1992). “Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir”, Citadel Press

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• Amid the moon and the stars, amid the clouds of the night, amid the hills which bordered on the sky with their magnificent silhouette of pointed cedars, amid the speckled patches of the moon, amid the temple buildings that emerged sparkling white out of the surrounding darkness - amid all this, I was intoxicated by the pellucid beauty of Uiko's treachery.

  Yukio Mishima

  Stars, Moon, Night

  Yukio Mishima (2011). “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion”, p.29, Tuttle Publishing

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• Oh, dear me." Nathalie sank back down in the chair and examined her Uggs. "The sarcasm could've started dripping off her and stained the floor. "Is it conspiracy, treachery, murder, or open warfare? I'll have to choose my lipstick accordingly.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Sarcasm, Uggs, Warfare

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• Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill!

  Tamora Pierce

  Skills, Age, Youth

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• I would injure no man, and should provoke no resentment. I would relieve every distress, and should enjoy the benedictions of gratitude. I would choose my friends among the wise and my wife among the virtuous, and therefore should be in no danger from treachery or unkindness. My children should by my care be learned and pious, and would repay to my age what their childhood had received.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Gratitude, Children

  Samuel Johnson, Abraham Raimbach, Robert Smirke (1819). “Rasselas”, p.48

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• 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

  Sad, Death, God

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• Early rejections are really tough, especially when all of your friends who you went to school with now have legitimate jobs, are getting married, having children, buying real estate, being adults. And you're still trying to figure out how to make a living doing the thing you think you love, but you're not even sure yet because you haven't even done it. It was a long road of risk and treachery.

  Brit Marling

  Children, Real, School

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Most of what happens in the world is far beyond a dog's comprehension, so they must turn to their faith in us to help them navigate life's treacheries. Don't we, also, have unanswerable questions about the vagaries of modern existence for which the answer is beyond human grasp, so that only our faith can guide us?

  W. Bruce Cameron

  World, Helping, Modern

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  Betrayal, Abdication, Patriot

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• To read Lucia St. Clair Robson is to learn while being thoroughly entertained. Last Train from Cuernavaca puts us through the tragic violence and political treachery of the Mexican Revolution and its consequences so intimately that we feel hunger, lust, thirst, grief, and saddle sores, and admire anew the awesome durability and courage of the people of Mexico-- especially the women.

  James Alexander Thom

  Grief, People, Mexican

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• Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every inclination to evince fidelity. Most people disdain to clear themselves from the accusations of mere suspicion.

  Jane Porter

  Confidence, People, Failing

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.208

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