“T' abhor the makers, and their laws approve,
Is to hate traitors and the treason love.”
John Dryden book The Hind and the Panther
Pt. III, lines 706–707.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
“This principle is old, but true as fate,—
Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.”
The Honest Whore (1604), Part i, Act iv. Sc. 4.
Compare: "Cæsar said he loved the treason, but hated the traitor", Plutarch, Life of Romulus.
Compare: "treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all", Robert Greene, Pandosto (1588).
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English dramatist and pamphleteer 1572–1632Related quotes
Robert Greene (dramatist) book Pandosto
Pandosto (1588); p. 9 http://books.google.com/books?id=5FIPAAAAQAAJ&q=&quot;Treason+is+loved+of+many+but+the+traitor+hated+of+all&quot;&pg=PA9#v=onepage. <br class="br">Compare: "Cæsar said he loved the treason, but hated the traitor", Plutarch, Life of Romulus. <br class="br">Compare: "This principle is old, but true as fate,—<br>Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate." Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore (1604).
“For while the treason I detest,
The traitor still I love.”
John Hoole (1727–1803) British translator
"Romulus and Hersilia", Act I, scene v
Translations, Dramas and Other Poems of Metastasio (1800)
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
The Patriot (1774)
Context: Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country.
Godwin, Earl of Wessex Anglo-Saxon nobleman; son of Wulfnoth Cild
The Chronicle of Henry of Huntingdon (trans. Thomas Forester), Book VI
Godwin supposedly said this just before he choked to death on a piece of bread at the table of King Edward "the Confessor", but the story is very doubtful.
Misattributed
“It lies not in our power to love or hate,
For will in us is overruled by fate.”
Christopher Marlowe book Hero and Leander
First Sestiad
Hero and Leander (published 1598)
“Those who knowingly allow the King to err deserve the same punishment as traitors.”
Alfonso X of Castile (1221–1284) King of Castile
Los que dejan al rey errar a sabiendas, merecen pena como traidores.
Quoted in Diccionario ilustrado de frases célebres y citas literarias (1952), by Vicente Vega.
“The Irish, above all people in the world, hates a traitor. p. 35”
George Washington Plunkitt (1842–1924) New York State Senator
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 8, Ingratitude in Politics