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Treacherous Quotes

A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.

A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.

Amin Maalouf
Writing, Taught, Treacherous
Amin Maalouf (2001). “In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong”, p.9, Arcade Publishing

Nothing is so treacherous as the obvious.

Joseph A. Schumpeter
Obvious, Treacherous
Joseph A. Schumpeter (2010). “Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy”, p.272, Routledge

Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.

Stevie Smith
May, Treacherous, Depends

The general perception, in much of the Middle East, is that the United States is an unreliable friend and a harmless enemy. I think we want to give the exact opposite impression.

Bernard Lewis
America, Enemy, Treacherous

The treacherous are ever distrustful.

J. R. R. Tolkien
Treacherous
J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.568, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Depression is so treacherous - it can be so alluring as well as punishing. After all, it's yours and yours alone - no one else can interfere with it.

Margo Jefferson
Wells, Treacherous, Alluring
Source: www.elle.com

Hope is treacherous, but how can you live without it?

Elizabeth Wein
Treacherous

Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wise, Praise, Treacherous

But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.

Danielle Trussoni
Enemy, Important, Treacherous
Danielle Trussoni (2010). “Angelology: A Novel”, p.292, Penguin

If I had died it would have been even better for you political bratchnies, would it not, pretending and treacherous droogs as you are.' But all that came out was er er er.

Anthony Burgess
Political, Pretending, Treacherous
Anthony Burgess (2012). “A Clockwork Orange (Restored Text)”, p.185, W. W. Norton & Company

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