Petard Quotes

Most people who get into power in the western world start with great intentions, but slowly they all become entrapped and hung by their own petard. (David A. Stewart)
I'm always playing these mendacious characters who end up hoisting themselves by their own petard. View quote
Maxwell Caulfield
For 'Tis the sport to have the engineer hoisted with his own petard. View quote
William Shakespeare
Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know! View quote
Tom Stoppard
In the short run the Soviet authorities and their colleagues in eastern Europe could certainly suppress easily enough any voices raised on behalf of individual or collective rights: in 1977 the leaders of a Ukrainian ‘Helsinki Rights' group were arrested and sentenced to terms ranging from three to fifteen years. But the very emphasis that Communist leaders had placed upon ‘Helsinki' as the source of their regimes' international legitimacy would now come to haunt them: by invoking Moscow's own recent commitments, critics (at home and abroad) could now bring public pressure to bear on the Soviet regimes. Against this sort of opposition, violent repression was not just ineffective but, to the extent that it was public knowledge, self-defeating. Hoist by the petard of their own cynicism, Leonid Brezhnev and his colleagues had inadvertently opened a breach in their own defenses. Against all expectation, it was to prove mortal. View quote
Tony Judt