Turncoats Quotes

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  • Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy). [Wine is a turncoat, first a friend, then an enemy.]

    Wine   Enemy   Firsts  
  • Time and again, my sociobiological colleagues have upbraided me as a turncoat, because I will not agree with them that the ultimate criterion for the success of a meme must be its contribution to Darwinian "fitness". At bottom, they insist, a "good meme" spreads because brains are receptive to it, and the receptiveness of brains is ultimately shaped by (genetic) natural selection.

    Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene”, p.167, Oxford University Press
  • What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!

    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Aaron Ridley, Judith Norman (2005). “Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings”, p.192, Cambridge University Press
  • Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none. Beatrice: A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. -Much Ado About Nothing

    Dog   Heart   Men  
    William Shakespeare (2005). “William Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.2906, OUP Oxford
  • No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.

    Wise   Men   Traitor  
    "Orationes In Verrem", II. 1. 15, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 811-12,
  • Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

    Wine   Alcohol   Enemy  
  • For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw overboard for having the strength to swim to the other side.

    Real   Party   Political  
    Lady Dorothy Nevill (1910). “Under Five Reigns”, London : Methuen
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