Quotes About Duplicity

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

You want me to be truthful.. for your convenience.. but in turn.. you consider to be mendacious for your own convenience.. !! Gr8..!!

half truths equal whole lies

My lying is a second skin by now, so easy to forget it's there, so I don't always remember that lying is actually an art, and those who aren't meticulous about it are easily exposed.

There are two types of liers...those that lie to others, and those that lie to themselves.

Marcos Axiom — everything said is the opposite of the facts

The way of truth is one and artless; the way of private gain and success...is double, uneven, and fortuitous.' -On the Useful and the Honourable.

A knockoff is not as easy to spot when it comes to love.

Hypocrites are more enraging than extremists, as every campaign operative knows.

What was she going to do with two Drustans? A kinky part of her proposed something unmentionable and rather fascinating. Really, if they were both him , it wouldn't be like she was cheating on anyone.

The saddest part of the story to me is that no one talked about the duplicity. The missing bread was never mentioned. The people were silent. ———

Como os portões do Hades me é odioso aquele homem que esconde uma coisa na mente, mas diz outra.

stupid lie, regardless of who writes it or tries to justify it, is still a stupid lie Ã¢â'¬Â¦ even when it's wrapped up in flowers.

In that time, moral standards were high in public life and so, therefore, was hypocrisy.

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic human truth that we are all faking it most of the time. We congratulate a rival on a triumph when actually we are choking on spite. We are cordial and attentive to crashing bores.

With 'Duplicity', I was a little bit like, 'This isn't that hard of a movie.' This isn't like some huge brain trust of a movie. You gotta be a little bit awake to follow the plot, but it's really just a kind of light entertainment. It's like those Cary Grant movies, which are not meant to be anything other than diverting. In a nice way.

Telling lies is the easy bit, but telling the truth and pretending you are lying is hard.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Strings for when I'm lying, Fiddler for when I'm telling the truth.

I woke up this morning and discovered that everything in my apartment had been stolen and replaced with an exact replica. I told my roommate, "Isn't this amazing? Everything in the apartment has been stolen and replaced with an exact replica." He said, "Do I know you?

Duplicity in matters of religion is not confined to Pakistan, but it hurts the most in societies where debate on religion is asphyxiated and preachers of hate have become keepers of faith.

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

deceivers shall always be at the junction of double mindedness

The day on which he [Épernon] arrives, and so long as he remains, I shall dress myself in garments which I shall never wear again: those of dissimulation and hypocrisy