Top 193 Treacherous Quotes & Sayings

Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

I've been called treacherous, stupid, venal, lazy ..and that's only by the Tories.

Let's face it, the White House is a treacherous place.

Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to change their minds in response to arguments.

Running in heels can be treacherous, and don't get me started on fake eyelashes!

I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.

No one has ever lived who knows better than you the proper placement of footfalls on treacherous paths.

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor.

Our soldiers in Siachen are performing their duty with great courage and fortitude, even in extreme conditions and treacherous terrain.

Here's a note to the parents of addicted children: Choose your music carefully...There are millions of treacherous moments.

Hope is treacherous, but how can you live without it?

If Christ came back he would drive his treacherous servants out of the temple with a whip.

Building a company isn't that different from climbing a big mountain. You need people helping you traverse treacherous paths and to lift you up when you fall.

A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.

But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.

The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.

Blind dates are treacherous. You don't know who this person is. You wonder, 'Should I call my grandma during coffee to get out of this?'

Once you've started down that road to self-discovery, no matter how treacherous the path before you, you can't turn back. The universe doesn't allow it.

To have a 9-foot sofa in a small room can be kind of treacherous.

It is treacherous on a high wire to change your focus point and suddenly look down.

We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

An envious heart makes a treacherous ear.

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous.

How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the feeblest ray of reason might surely show us, that not only its attainment, but its being, was impossible..... There is no such thing in the universe. There can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment.

How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?

As far as fidelity is concerned, there is no animal in the world as treacherous as man.

Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.

Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.

The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.

Set your sails now but the ocean is very rough and treacherous... if you keep going you will get there.

You three have done quite enough today: all of you and your feckless, treacherous god.

Fear is a treacherous leader. It shrinks from the new and fails to meet the challenges of the future.

It was an ongoing, long, treacherous struggle that we just had growing up. It's part of my story now and I think in owning it I can do a lot of good.

The world around you is not equipped to provide the help you need to make it through this often treacherous journey.

the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion

Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.

It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.

Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.

There's something incredibly primal about facing something treacherous but doing it anyway.

We are all sensible that the king and Tisaphernes have caused as many of us as they could to be apprehended, and it is plain they design, by the same treacherous means, if they can, to destroy the rest.

Nothing is so treacherous as the obvious.

Success is sweet and treacherous.

Self-justification is a treacherous servant.

Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path.

Abortion is an atrocity. Those who practice or praise it are either damn idiots, misguided fools, or treacherous devils.

Better confide and be deceiv'd, A thousand times, by treacherous foes, Than once accuse the innocent, Or let suspicion mar repose.

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.

Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel. Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart

Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames.

The tsar [Nicholas II] is not treacherous but he is weak. Weakness is not treachery, but it fulfils all its functions.

Every great thing starts with an idea, followed by a doubt and finally a resolve to abandon or pursue. Victory is a treacherous journey.

Treacherous people do not last only memories of their treason last.So will it last with emotions mixed, of love and hate for treacherous ones.

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait.

The autobiographer works in a treacherous terrain. The journalist has a much safer job.

In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it