Quotes About Duplicity

To beguile is to deceive or lead astray, as Lucifer beguiled Eve in the Garden of Eden.

inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.

Sometimes I wish I could clone myself, you know, be in two places at once.

Christopher Nolan's 'The Prestige' is an enthralling study of doubles, doubling and duplicity. Its twinned themes are obsession and the Secret: the Secret as objet-a, that which inspires, but which can never satisfy, obsession.

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

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They contemn one another, and yet they seek to please one another: and whilest they seek to surpass one another in worldly pomp and greatness, they most debase and prostitute themselves in their better part one to another.

De Frontón: haber observado a qué grado de envidia, de disimulo y duplicidad llegaron los tiranos, y cómo, casi siempre, esas gentes que llamamos los «patricios» son incapaces de verdadero afecto para los demás.

I hope she won't destroy him, thought Felix. But he's a con man, don't forget. A con man playing an actor. A double unreality.

Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.

What gentlemen say and what they think are two different things.

Then he had thought it all beyond her mental grasp and it had been pleasant to explain things to her. Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.

the events of The Group were matters that I was not supposed to know about, or even be capable of understanding. The attention of our elders focused on sexual activity, but perhaps other elements were even more corrosive of the conventions: disappointment, infidelity, duplicity, hypocrisy. In all of those books, too, there was a sense of forbidden female license that translated, at some subconscious level, into female freedom.

It is important for a woman to have the duplicity to make good use of whatever gifts she might have, however valueless they might seem... You have to have the inner strength to pursue your goal, and not care how many enemies you make along the road. It is not easy.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another.

How can you tell the difference between the good guys and the bad guys when they say the same things?

I was living a life of a lie. I really was.

To hold with the hare and run with the hound.

She looketh as butter would not melt in her mouth.

Honeyed words like bees,Gilded and sticky, with a little sting.

The Devil's most devilish when respectable.

Michelangelo Osiris Leary Kusanagi-Jones, Liar, was going to have to tell someone the truth.

You dirty, double-crossing rat.