Treason Quotes

“Judas had given them the slip.”

“Et tu Brute! Then fall, Cæsar!”

“He [Cæsar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.”

“Ipsa se fraus, etiamsi initio cautior fuerit, detegit.”

“Nemo unquam sapiens proditori credendum putavit.”

“For while the treason I detest,
The traitor still I love.”

“Tellest thou me of "ifs"? Thou art a traitor:
Off with his head!”

“Know, my name is lost;
By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit.”

“treason”

“Treason is a charge invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers.”

“Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried;
Successful crimes alone are justified.”

“Wikipedia: Treason”

“Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence
With vizor'd falsehood and base forgery?”

“The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.”

“This principle is old, but true as fate,
Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.”

“Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep;
And in his simple show he harbours treason.”

“Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”

“The man who pauses on the paths of treason,
Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.”

“Some guard these traitors to the block of death;
Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath.”

“To say the truth, so Judas kiss'd his master,
And cried "all hail!" whereas he meant all harm.”