Quotes of Treachery - somelinesforyou

“ Bad literature is a form of treason. ”

- Joseph Brodsky

“ Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken. ”

- George MacDonald

“ They (corporations) cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. ”

- Sir Edward Coke

“ 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

“ Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin! ”

- Joseph Addison

“ For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to falter would be sin. ”

- Frederick W. Faber

“ Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor." — infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people. ”

- Wendell Phillips

“ Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love. ”

- John le Carré

“ This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate. ”

- Thomas Dekker

“ Bad men trust no one because they know the treachery of which they themselves are capable. ”

- Dean Koontz

“ Strafford who was hurried hence / 'Twixt treason and convenience. ”

- John Cleveland

“ To me, that's treason. ”

- Alice Cooper

“ There's such divinity doth hedge a king That treason can but peep to what it would, Acts little of his will. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They're only powerful when you got your back turned. ”

- Eminem

“ If this be treason, make the most of it! ”

- Patrick Henry

“ The pain of their losses has been compounded by the betrayal of their own government. ”

- Connie Mack

“ It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination… If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. ”

- Annie Dillard

“ We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is not said: that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens. Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda. ”

- J.R.R. Tolkien

“ It is difficult for me to talk to you because I really feel duped. More importantly, I feel you betrayed millions of readers... As I sit here today, I don't know what is true, and I don't know what isn't. ”

- Oprah Winfrey

“ Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief. ”

- Publilius Syrus

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

- Benjamin Franklin

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Olusegun Obasanjo

“ Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader. ”

- Douglas William Jerrold

“ The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time. ”

- Horace Mann

“ Ingratitude is treason to mankind. ”

- James Thomson

“ Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi
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