Treachery Quotes

Knavery's plain face is never seen till used.

We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.

Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies; and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.

You also, O son Brutus.[Lat., Et tu, Brute fili.]

You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to receive our aid when you came at last to these shores fainthearted loiterers and well-nigh emptyhanded. In huts on the beaches would you be dwelling still had not the Noldor carved out your haven and toiled upon your walls.

If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

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

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