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There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast which trusted to his truth. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Judas had given them the slip. - Matthew (Mathew) Henry, Commentaries (Matthew, XXII) Deliberate treachery entails punishment upon the traitor. There is no possibility of escaping it, even in the highest rank to which the consent of society can exalt the meanest and worst of men. - Junius (pseudonym, possibly of Sir Philip Francis) Men are oftener treacherous through weakness than design. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld In general, treachery, though at first sufficiently cautious, yet in the end betrays itself. - Titus Livy Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself. [Lat., Ipsa se fraus, etiamsi initio cautior fuerit, detegit.] - Titus Livy, Annales (XLIV, 15) Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence With vizor'd falsehood and base forgery? - John Milton, Comus (l. 697) Oh, colder than the wind that freezes Founts, that but now in sunshine play'd, Is that congealing pang which seizes The trusting bosom, when betray'd. - Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh--The Fire Worshippers 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--The Fire Worshippers There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery. - Ouida (pseudonym of Marie Louise de la Ramee) It is time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. - William Shakespeare Et tu, Brute?--Then fall Caesar. - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Julius Caesar at III, i) To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Plantagenet, Duke of York at V, vii)
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