49 Quotes About Treachery
- Author John Fowles
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Accepting the sadness. Knowing that to pretend it was all gay was treachery. Treachery to everyone sad at the moment, everyone ever sad, treachery to such music, such truth.
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- Author Yukio Mishima
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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.
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- Author Marty Rubin
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Never treat any person as a means to an end, but always as an end in themselves.
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- Author Orhan Pamuk
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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.
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- Author Romain Gary
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It was obviously a typical human enterprise, very much of this earth, with nothing true or sincere about it, and doomed irremediably to the usual exploitations and treachery...
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- Author Alexander Cockburn
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Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:
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- Author Nicole Sager
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The message had been delivered. All they could do now was wait. Valden hated waiting.
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- Author A.H. Septimius
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The ambition of men compels them to break even the most heartfelt vows.
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- Author Émile Gaboriau
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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.
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