Top Treason Quotes
This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
Thomas Dekker
The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.
Thomas Francis Meagher
Disunion by force is treason.
Andrew Jackson
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
T. S. Eliot
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
Samuel Johnson
Josiah Royce 
Andrew Jackson 
Stephen Fry 
Joseph Brodsky 
Rebecca West 
Edward Coke 
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This principle is old, but true as fate, Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.
Thomas Dekker 
60% of people like this quote
The treason of which I stand convicted loses all its guilt, has been sanctified as a duty, and will be ennobled as a sacrifice.
Thomas Francis Meagher
57% of people like this quote
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
Samuel Johnson
55% of people like this quote
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
T. S. Eliot
55% of people like this quote
The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.
Juan Goytisolo
53% of people like this quote
Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.
John Harington
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I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there.
Stephen Fry
52% of people like this quote
Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
Ovid
51% of people like this quote
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