Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1826
AUTHOR:
Sir John Harington (1560?1612)
QUOTATION:
Treason doth never prosper, whats the reason?For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.
ATTRIBUTION:
SIR JOHN HARINGTON, Of Treason, The Letters and Epigrams of Sir John Harington , ed. Norman E. McClure, book 4, epigram 5, p. 255 (1977). The complete edition of his epigrams was published in 1618.