"Turncoat" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from the ascendency he had gained over the Court, to some one who betrayed him. His death, so very unexpectedly, and at that crisis, made a deep impression on the mind of the Queen. She really believed him capable of redressing the monarchy, and he certainly was the only one of the turncoat constitutionalists in whom she placed any confidence. Would to Heaven that she had had more in Barnave, and that she had listened to Dumourier! These I would have trusted more, far more ...
— The Memoirs of Louis XV. and XVI., Volume 6 • Madame du Hausset, and of an Unknown English Girl and the Princess Lamballe
... satire-royal: and if any thing were yet wanting to convince us that Master Pindar is no turncoat, here ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... "Ah! you turncoat scoundrel!" he laughed in a sort of fond dejection, "you've come North to be a lover too, have you? You were songless enough ...
— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable
... 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 ...
— Much Ado About Nothing • William Shakespeare [Craig, Oxford edition]
... me a moment, Miss Galbraith. If Mr. Duff will oblige me by answering my question, I trust I shall satisfy you I am no turncoat." ...
— Sir Gibbie • George MacDonald
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