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In politics all abstract terms conceal treachery.

~ C.l.r. James

C.l.r. James Deceit Politics Treachery

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

Yukio Mishima Beauty Moonlight Night Treachery

There is a darkness in you. In all of us, probably. Beasts we keep chained. Ordinary men have to keep the chains strong, for if we let the beast loose then society will turn upon us with fiery vengeance. Kings though...well, who is there to turn upon them? So the chains are made of straw. It is the curse of kings, Helikaon, that they can become monsters. And they invariably do.

~ David Gemmell

David Gemmell Evil Humanity Kings Leadership Treachery

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Shannon L. Alder Annoying Habits Attachment Bad Relationships Betrayal Bickering Boredom Boyfriend Cheating Competition Day Dreams Death Denial Desires Disappointments Divorce Drama Drama Seeking Dreams Ego Failures False Memories Family Fantasy Fights Flirtation Funerals Girlfriend How It Was Incompatability Insecurity Jealousy Lies Marriage Marriage Difficulties Memories Memory Loss Nostalgia Obsession Personality Pictures Pride Real Life Sentimental Silence Stimulus Seeking The Past Treachery Vacations

They say blood is thicker than water. It's also more treacherous, prone to betrayal, full of shit and quite honestly, I wouldn't put much weight into it at all.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

Ashly Lorenzana Abandonment Betrayal Biology Blood Deceit Family Quotes Relationships Relatives Treachery

Its funny when people recently change their attitude to gain entrance into your heart, which may only ignite your passion to close the door.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Michael Bassey Johnson Attitude Canny Change Cunning Current Deception Door Fake Fresh Funny Gain Hack Heart Ignite Illusion Impostor Latest Manipulation Passion Recent Temporary Thief Transformation Transience Treachery Trick

It is strange,' he said at last. 'I had longed to enter the world of men. Now I see it filled with sorrow, with cruelty and treachery, with those who would destroy all around them.' 'Yet, enter it you must,' Gwydion answered, 'for it is a destiny laid on each of us. True, you have seen these things. But there are equal parts of love and joy.

~ Lloyd Alexander

Lloyd Alexander Betrayal Cruelty Joy Love Manhood Sorrow Treachery

In that moment, hell may have ascended,Or heaven may have descended only to save me and prove,What I carry is an exaggerated memory of an imagined beautiful love.This love is tainted with treachery; it will be my doom.

~ Sreesha Divakaran

Sreesha Divakaran Betrayal Doom Heaven Hell Love Memory Tainted Treachery Trust

What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed? said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. Only innocent lives, Peter!You don't understand! whined Pettigrew. He would have killed me, Sirius!THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED! roared Black. DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!

~ J.k. Rowling

J.k. Rowling Betrayal Friends Traitor Treachery

I wish I could find MY books listed on GOODREADS - DODGING JOE, THE WOMAN WHO WOULDN'T EXPLAIN, THE BITTER GRAPES - ll available through Amazon and Createspace -

~ Saaskia Aark-Bennett

Saaskia Aark-Bennett Adventure General Giction Love Murder Treachery

Hate is the father of all evil.

~ David Gemmell

David Gemmell Evil Hate Hatred Treachery

I do know this much though: If a man resorts to wiles, guile and petty deceptions, it means he's nowhere near being in love.

~ Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk Love Love Quotes Man Treachery Wiles

Beautiful things were sometimes mixed up with treacherous things, they could even happen at the same time, or one could lead to the other, I thought.

~ Norman Ollestad

Norman Ollestad Beautiful Inspirational Treachery

In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.

~ Honoré De Balzac

Honoré De Balzac Deceit Honesty Treachery

The message had been delivered. All they could do now was wait. Valden hated waiting.

~ Nicole Sager

Nicole Sager Patience Treachery

We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.

~ Lemony Snicket

Lemony Snicket Parents And Children Parents And Responsiblity Survival Treachery

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

~ Alexander Cockburn

Alexander Cockburn Despair Gossip Journalism Philosophy Treachery

Defeat I can endure with cheerfulness, my lady. But betrayal is like taking the wind from my sails, or the earth from beneath my feet. It chills my spirits like a rainy day, and all I can do is draw the curtains and cry into my pillow.

~ Margaret George

Margaret George Betrayal Despair Treachery

My dear, treacherous mother,” he breathed. “What have you done?

~ Grace Draven

Grace Draven Betray Betrayal Betrayed Mother Treacherous Treachery What Have You Done

Deception' is the word I most associate with anorexia and the treachery which comes from falsehood. The illness appears inviting. It would seem to offer something to those unwary or unlucky enough to suffer from it - friendship, a get-out, or a haven - when, in fact, it is a trap.

~ Carol Lee

Carol Lee Anoretic Anorexia Anorexia Nervosa Deception Eating Disorder Escape False Friend Falsehood Haveb Illness Mental Illness Self Deception Trap Treachery

The ambition of men compels them to break even the most heartfelt vows.

~ A.h. Septimius

A.h. Septimius Ambition Brotherhood Honour Life Treachery

I'd be glad of a retaliation that wouldn't recoil on myself; but treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends: they wound those who resort to them, worse than their enemies.

~ Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë Revenge Treachery Wuthering Heights

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

Émile Gaboriau Tragedy Treachery

The solid earth sways like the treacherous sea beneath the feet of men and spirits alike when the innocent are slain in the name of law, and their wrongs are undone by slandering the pure of heart.

~ George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw Blame Innocence Slander Treachery

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

~ Jacqueline Carey

Jacqueline Carey Blame Taint Treachery
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