TREASON
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Is there not some chosen curse,
Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven,
Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man
Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin?—ADDISON, Cato
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This principle is old, but true as fate,
Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.—THOMAS DEKKER, The Honest Whore
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Rebellion must be managed with many swords; treason to his prince's person may be with one knife.—THOMAS FULLER, Holy & Profane State
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Treason doth never prosper; what's the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.—SIR JOHN HARRINGTON, Epigrams
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The man who pauses on the paths of treason,
Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.—AARON HILL, Henry V
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Tarquin and Caesar each had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third ["Treason!" cried the Speaker]—may profit by their example! If this be treason, make the most of it!—PATRICK HENRY
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Oh, for a tongue to curse the slave
Whose treason, like a deadly blight,
Comes o'er the councils of the brave,
And blasts them in their hour of might!—THOMAS MOORE, Lalla Rookh
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Though those that are betray'd
Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor
Stands in worse case of woe.—SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline
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Treason is but trusted like the fox
Who, ne'er so tame, so cherish'd and locked up,
Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
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Some guard these traitors to the block of death;
Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
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Treason and murder ever kept together,
As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose,
Working so grossly in a natural cause,
That admiration did not hoop at them.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry V
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Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep;
And in his simple show he harbours treason.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI
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Know, my name is lost;
By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit.—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
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