#treachery

It is at the family fireside, often under the shelter of the law itself, that the real tragedies of life are acted; in these days traitors wear gloves, scoundrels cloak themselves in public esteem, and their victims die broken-hearted, but smiling to the last. What I have just related to you is almost an every-day occurrence; and yet you profess astonishment. ↗

— Émile Gaboriau

#treachery #family

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

— Aeschylus

#hate #i #i have learned #learned #more

I say, traitors; as some men live upon the reward of treachery, for their quiet and liberty; if it may be called a liberty, as it is redeemed with the betraying of the interest of Christ, and the blood of His people. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#blood #called #christ #his #i

Amid the moon and the stars, amid the clouds of the night, amid the hills which bordered on the sky with their magnificent silhouette of pointed cedars, amid the speckled patches of the moon, amid the temple buildings that emerged sparkling white out of the surrounding darkness - amid all this, I was intoxicated by the pellucid beauty of Uiko's treachery. ↗

— Yukio Mishima

#moonlight #night #treachery #beauty

C’est que l’on a souvent pour ennemis des gens qu’on voudrait avoir pour amis. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#loyalty #treachery #friendship

Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#noble #treachery #tyranny

While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#american #case #form #liberals #manage