TREACHERY

Related Subjects: Informer, Spying, Treason

1. No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.—CICERO, Orationes in Verrem
   

2. Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.—LIVY, History
   

3. Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence
   With vizor'd falsehood and base forgery?—MILTON, Comus
   

4. Does not he to whom you betray another, to whom you were as welcome as to himself, know that you will at another time do as much for him?—MONTAIGNE, Essays
   

5. To say the truth, so Judas kiss'd his master,
   And cried "all hail" whereas he meant all harm.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
   

6. Et to Brute! Then fall, Caesar!—SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar

7. So Judas did to Christ: but he, in twelve,
   Found truth in all but one; I, in twelve thousand, none.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard II
   

8. Tellest thou me of "ifs"?
   Thou art a traitor: Off with his head!—SHAKESPEARE, Richard III