Quotes About Duplicity

If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth.

I can't stand looking at those nasty, smiling, yes-men. They'll say yes to an August snowstorm and agree to fish growing on a cherry tree. If I run into someone like that, I just want to smear honey all over him and let the bees have a picnic.

I spend some of my time brooding about people who seem addicted to double standards - those who take an allegedly principled stand on a Monday, then switch firmly to the opposite principle on Tuesday if it is to their advantage.

You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

I am not sincere even when I am saying that I am not sincere.

In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.

God fearing and man hating. Sugar sugar. There was so much sugar in the way they pretended to treat each other that I suffered from diabetes of the soul.

Satan is the master of the ultimate double-talk and sophistry. He calls evil good and continues to confuse men with his cleverly disguised untruths.

I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetuated fraud against himself.

Under softest touch hides treacherous claws.

A half truth is the worst of all lies, because it can be defended in partiality.

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

If you take part of the truth, and try to make that part of the truth, all of the truth, then that part of the truth becomes an untruth.

Two left-handed gloves don't make a pair. Two half-truths don't make a truth.

Tom doesn't have any principles, or if he does, he puts them aside whenever they're inconvenient. The truth hurts, doesn't it, Tom?

The truth is that the devil is very cunning. The truth is that he is not always as ugly as they say.

The most mischievous liars are those who keep sliding on the verge of truth.

But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth.

Once ...Why ...lie? ...when ...truth is ...the easier path

It was so useful to lie with the truth.

A lie is the only truth about a liar.