Quotes
Quotes about Treason
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Tarquin and Caesar had each his Brutus--Charles the First, his Cromwell--and George the Third--("Treason!" shouted the Speaker) may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.
The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.
For while the treason I detest, The traitor still I love.
He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.
Though those that are betrayed Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor Stands in worse case of woe.
Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.
Some guard these traitors to the block of death, Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath.
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep, And in his simple show he harbors treason.
Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope.
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 whoop at them; But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Wonder to wait on treason and on murder; And whatsoever cunning fiend it was That wrought upon thee so preposterously Hath got the voice in hell for excellence.
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
Cynicism is intellectual treason.
Bad literature . . . is a form of treason.
To break training without permission is an act of treason.
Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.
Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief.
