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Book:Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author

Source: Complete poetical works: containing: Proverbial philosophy, A thousand lines, Hactenus, Geraldine, and miscellaneous poems. With a portrait of the author

“Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skills.”

Age Youth Skills Overcoming Aging Treachery

Author:Ioan Gruffudd

“Every evil screams only one message: 'I am good.'”

Christian Evil Goodness Messages Deception Orthodox Scream Orthodox Christian Treachery Duplicity Falseness

Author:Alexander Schmemann

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

Masters Harm Cried Hail Treachery Judas

Book:The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V

Source: The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V

“The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.”

Silence Amount Daring Say Anything Behalf Treachery Censure Tacit

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

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

Men Should Wise Trust Trusted Wise Man Once Said Traitor Treason Treachery Renegades No Trust Turncoats

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“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.”

Secret Guilt Communicate Folly Secrecy Treachery

Author:Samuel Johnson

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

Firsts Ends Betray Cautious Treachery

Author:Livy

“May God have mercy on my soul for the deaths on my name and for the treachery I committed. Betrayal of God and country, what a sad and horrible thing it is.”

May Soul Country God Death Names Sad Mercy Committed Betrayal Horrible Commit My Soul Treachery Horrible Things God And Country

Author:E. Howard Hunt

“A political leader who desires to be useful to the revolutionary proletariat must be able to distinguish concrete cases of compromises that are inexcusable and are an expression of opportunism and treachery.”

Able Political Desire Leader Cases Expression Compromise Revolutionary Concrete Proletariat Treachery Political Leaders Opportunism

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“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.”

Said Jesus Kings Accused Treachery

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux

“The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.”

Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

“One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.”

Truth Literature Handle Deception Giants Hypocrisy Concealed Treachery Dynamite Handle The Truth

Author:Anais Nin

“Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!”

Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“When Ling was communicating to any person the signs by which messengers might find him, he was compelled to add, "the neighbourhood in which this contemptible person resides is that officially known as 'the mean quarter favoured by the lower class of those who murder by treachery'," and for this reason he was not always treated with the regard to which his attainments entitled him, or which he would have unquestionably received had he been able to describe himself as of "the partly-drained and uninfected area reserved to Mandarins and their friends.”

Source: THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more

“Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.”

Want Capacity Cunning Treachery

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Native annalists may look sadly back from the future on that period when we had the atomic bomb and the Russians didn't. Or when the Russians had aquired (through connivance and treachery of Westerns with warped minds) the atomic bomb - and yet still didn't have any stockpile of the weapons. That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.”

Mind Looks May Stills Might Periods Weapons Russia Destroyed Eras Bombs Native Elbows Atomic Bomb Treachery

Author:Curtis LeMay

“Machiavelli says that if as a ruler you accept that your every action must pass moral scrutiny, you will without fail be defeated by an opponent who submits to no such moral test. To hold on to power, you have not only to master the crafts of deception and treachery but to be prepared to use them where necessary.”

Ifs Use Action Accepting Moral Failing Masters Tests Prepared Crafts Deception Opponents Rulers Submit Defeated Be Prepared Scrutiny Treachery

Author:J. M. Coetzee

“Politicians nowadays treat Americans like medical orderlies treat Alzheimer's patients, telling them anything that will keep them subdued. It doesn't matter what untruths the people are fed because they will not long remember. But in politics, forgotten falsehoods almost guarantee new treachery.”

People Long Matter Remember Politician Treats Patient Forgotten Medical Guarantees Feds Falsehood Treachery Alzheimer Untruth Alzheimer's

Author:James Bovard

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

Cutting Knives Blades Treachery

Book:Puck. In Maremma

Source: Puck. In Maremma

“If wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lust of many harms is lurking in his eye; he hath a hollow heart; use him cautiously.”

Ifs Heart Use Hands Eye Wealth Tongue Harm Lust His Eyes Smooth Hollow Eloquent Treachery Lurking False Friends

Book:The Crock of Gold, and Other Tales

Source: The Crock of Gold, and Other Tales

“Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!)”

Brutes Treachery Brutus

Author:William Shakespeare

“The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny.”

Ideas Politics Names Causes Politician Hatred Terror Connected Tyranny Cruelty Fraud Statesmen Treachery

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

“It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery. These may, perhaps, succeed for once, and borrow for awhile, from hope, a gay and flourishing appearance. But time betrays their weakness, and they fall into ruin of themselves. For, as in structures of every kind, the lower parts should have the greatest firmness--so the grounds and principles of actions should be just and true.”

Source: All the orations of Demosthenes, pronounced to excite the Athenians against Philip King of Macedon: Translated into English; digested and connected, so as to form a regular history of the progress of the Macedonian power: with notes historical and critical. By Thomas Leland, ...

“Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every inclination to evince fidelity. Most people disdain to clear themselves from the accusations of mere suspicion.”