Top 144 Treachery Quotes & Sayings

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

There is no curse in Elvish, Entish or the tongues of Men for this treachery!

Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery.

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

To tell your own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt; to communicate those with which we are intrusted is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly.

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

There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses.

To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it

How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.

The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.

Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.

A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.

Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill

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

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

Political renegades always start their career of treachery as 'the best men of all parties' and end up in the Tory knackery.

It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.

The worst thing thou has to fear is the treachery of thine own heart.

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.

The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.

Some friendship is closely akin to treachery.

When an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could use more of that kind of "treachery".

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

Fear is the white lipp'd sire Of subterfuge and treachery.

Tricks and treachery are merely proofs of lack of skill.

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

Horses are far worse than men for treachery.

Raoul: Age and treachery! Neal: Youth and skill!

We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.

It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skills.

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

Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!

Deceit and treachery skulk with hatred, but an honest spirit flieth with anger.

In terms of actual audience numbers, I honestly had no idea what to expect [with 'Treachery' ]. It was, after all, not a superhero title.

What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is gained through treachery and invites treachery against those who gain it. Those most powerful in Menzoberranzan spend their days watching over their shoulders, defending against the daggers that would find their backs. Their deaths usually come from the front." -Drizzt Do'Urden

When it comes to treachery, he is implacable.

Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

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

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel.

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

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

There's a point, you know, where treachery is so complete and unashamed that it becomes statesmanship.

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness.

There is always the threat of tomorrow's treachery, or next year's treachery, or the treachery implicit in all the tomorrows beyond that.

Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.

Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.

There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery