There is no knife that cuts so sharply and with such poisoned blade as treachery.
An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England.
Treason seldom dwells with courage.
Treason is greatest where trust is greatest.
Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery
At least Lester had the decency to weep at his act of perfidy. Reader, do you know what 'perfidy' means? I have a feeling you do, based on the scene that unfolded here. But you should look up the word in your dictionary, just to be sure.
We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.
The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor.
Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?
There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.
I thought of betrayal and how it came so easily - in a word, a glance, a gesture.
