It is at the family fireside, often under the shelter of the law itself, that the real tragedies of life are acted; in these days traitors wear gloves, scoundrels cloak themselves in public esteem, and their victims die broken-hearted, but smiling to the last. What I have just related to you is almost an every-day occurrence; and yet you profess astonishment.
Émile GaboriauWe are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.
Lemony SnicketTags: survival parents-and-children treachery parents-and-responsiblity
Defeat I can endure with cheerfulness, my lady. But betrayal is like taking the wind from my sails, or the earth from beneath my feet. It chills my spirits like a rainy day, and all I can do is draw the curtains and cry into my pillow.
Margaret GeorgeTags: despair betrayal treachery
This is treachery, to change faith in accord with shifting fortune. The justice of my cause impelled me to withstand even adverse circumstance.
Ulrich von HuttenC’est que l’on a souvent pour ennemis des gens qu’on voudrait avoir pour amis.
Alexandre DumasTags: friendship loyalty treachery
Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery:
Alexander CockburnTags: philosophy despair journalism gossip treachery
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