Quotes of Treason - somelinesforyou

“ Bad literature is a form of treason. ”

- Joseph Brodsky

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

- Wendell Phillips

“ 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

“ We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland. ”

- Theodore Parker

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

- Patrick Henry

“ To me, that's treason. ”

- Alice Cooper

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

- John Cleveland

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

- Douglas William Jerrold

“ Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor? ”

- Frank Moore Colby

“ The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ America is a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland. ”

- Theodore Parker

“ 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

“ Rebellion must be managed with many swords; treason to his prince's person may be with one knife. ”

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Thomas Dekker

“ The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him. ”

- Aaron Hill

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Thou art a traitor. Off with his head! Now by Saint Paul I swear I will not dine until I see the same. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Though those that are betrayed Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor Stands in worse case of woe. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried; Successful crimes alone are justified. ”

- John Dryden

“ He loved the treason, but hated the traitor. ”

- Plutarch

“ Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ To break training without permission is an act of treason. ”

- John Heisman

“ Some guard these traitors to the block of death, Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. ”

- Tennessee Williams

“ Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Ingratitude is treason to mankind. ”

- James Thomson

“ Oh, treacherous night! thou lendest thy ready veil to every treason, and teeming mischief's beneath thy shade. ”

- Aaron Hill

“ What a joy, that literacy is no longer prima facie evidence of treason. ”

- John Steinbeck
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