Quotes About Duplicity

The upside of being in the closet is that you develop skills of duplicity, which are great for big-time politicians.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

I knowed very well why they wouldn't come. It was because my heart warn't right; it was because I warn't square; it was because I was playing double.

In her growing years, Ammu had watched her father weave his hideous web. He was charming and urbane with visitors...He donated money to orphanages and leprosy clinics. He worked hard on his public profile as a sophisticated, generous, moral man. But alone with his wife and children he turned into a monstrous, suspicious bully, with a steak of vicious cunning. They were beaten, humiliated, and then made to suffer the envy of friends and relations for having such a wonderful husband and father.

If someone wants to lead a double life, they will find a way to do it. And they can promise you things until your nerves unfold and you can finally put up your feet. But it can all be a lie. There are no guarantees, even when people mean what they say at the time. People change their minds. People die. And the hurt is as real as a baseball bat.

On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.

The horrible monsters in this world are the ones that wear human face

Snakes hide in grass, people behind their lies.

When dealing with two faced people, it is difficult to know which face is uglier, the real one or the manufactured one.

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

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

When the sweet talkin's done, a man is a two face, a worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night.

He's a smooth-tongued, cold-eyed, hard-nosed, two-faced creep,' I said, trying to be fair. She was puzzled. 'How is he so successful?' 'Because,' I explained, 'he's a smooth-tongued, cold-eyed, hard-nosed, two-faced creep.

The duplicity of others must always be shocking when one is unconscious of one's own.

I think the conscientious pursuit of happiness by itself can validate decisions to change, to try again, especially when failure to change will lead to lives of duplicity, dishonesty, and deceit.

Quisling, vague, inefficient, and fanatical, won the rare distinction of being so closely associated with a single characteristic—treachery—that a noun was created in his name. At

Far from being repelled by the duplicity around him, Elliott felt ever more drawn to the game of skulduggery and double cross. The Venlo debacle had been "as disastrous as it was shameful," but he also found it fascinating, an object lesson in how highly intelligent people could be duped if persuaded to believe what they most wanted to believe. He was learning quickly.

Yet this honesty demanded emotional deception, fraud in a virtuous cause, a sacred duplicity. He was telling MI6 every secret truth he could find while lying to his colleagues and his bosses, his family, his best friend, his estranged wife and his new lover.

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

From Fronto I learned to observe what envy and duplicity and hypocrisy are in a tyrant, and that generally those among us who are called Patricians are rather deficient in paternal affection.

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You have duplicated four of the worst people in human history, and unleashed them on the world!

This is European duplicity, Pyle. We have to make up for our lack of supplies.

Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.