Quotes About Duplicity

That was an evil terror---- an ugly inmate to have found a nestling-place in Godfrey's kindly disposition; but no disposition is a security from evil wishes to a man whose happiness hangs on duplicity.

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.

One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.

I was thinking and feeling was true, no matter how much I had to tell lies everywhere else.

If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

There are honorable men who spend all their lives preparing for a supreme act of treachery

Trujillo lo premió con una sonrisa. Siempre sintió simpatía por Modesto, que, además de inteligente, era ponderado, justo, afable, sin dobleces. Sin embargo, su inteligencia no era controlable y aprovechable, como la de Cerebrito, el Constitucionalista Beodo o Balaguer.

bisogna svelarsi come il solo malvagio fra tutte le nobili persone con le quali si spartisce la vita

The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable. The great solitaries were happy in the old days, knew nothing of duplicity, had nothing to hide: they conversed only with their own solitude.

Respectable people... What bastards!

They gained the reputation of perfidi e scelleratissimi (perfidious and most wicked),

My dear queen," said he, "duplicity of any sort is exceedingly objectionable between married people of any rank, not to say kings and queens; and the most objectionable form duplicity can assume is that of punning." MacDonald, George. The Light Princess: and Other Fairy Stories (Kindle Locations 193-195). Dancing Unicorn Books. Kindle Edition.

A humanitarian is always a hypocrite

Perhaps the Party was rotten under the surface, its cult of strenuousness and self-denial simply a sham concealing iniquity.

It was just she was so full of bullshit and someone needed to call her on it and...and...she reacted so beautifully.

I thought you specialised in dishonest finesse?" "I also do a brisk trade in putting knives to peoples' throats and shouting at them," said Locke.

Ibelius," said Jean. "If what Locke is doing were lurking about, corpses could be acrobats.

Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.