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

  Alexander Schmemann

  Christian, Duplicity, Evil

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Party, Political, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics

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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 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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• No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Wise, Men, Traitor

  "Orationes In Verrem", II. 1. 15, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 811-12,

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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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• The treacheries of ambition never cease.

  Ruben Dario

  Ambition, Cease

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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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• 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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• 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

  Integrity, Thinking, Intellectual

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

  Publilius Syrus

  Grief, Tears, Ready

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• Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

  David Mamet

  Age, Youth, Beats

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• Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!

  Charles Lamb

  Bravery, Might, Tongue

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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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• Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.

  Jose Marti

  Fire, Hatred, Abjection

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Skills, Proof, Tricks

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