Quotes About Duplicity

Hay pocas razones para decir la verdad, pero para mentir el número es infinito.

The incompetent always present thmeselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as devout, usurers as benefactors, the small minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant, and teh feeble-minded as intellectual.

El incompetente siempre se presenta a sí mismo como experto, el cruel como piadoso, el pecador como santurrón, el usurero como benefactor, el mezquino como patriota, el arrogante como humilde, el vulgar como elegante y el bobalicón como intelectual

Brutal duplicity was his coinage. He played his games with little else.

She was doing that thing some people do when they act nice and chipper and interested, while just below the surface they're thinking really mean thoughts, and you can never call them on it because they'd just accuse you of being paranoid.

What matters is whether we want to lie or to tell the truth and write the truth, even though it never can be the truth and never is the truth.

To get ourselves out of a tight spot, it seems to me, we are ourselves just as mendacious as those we are always accusing of mendacity, those whom we despise and drag in the dirt for their mendacity;

We are doing one of two things when we sing to our children. We are either indulging in a cynical duplicity that is only creating the conditions for disenchantment, or we are passing on to them, as we had passed on to us, something that the human imagination has sanctioned as being in some way perennially valid.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

That music is ambiguity as a system. Take this note or this one. You can understand it like this or, again, like this, can perceive it as augmented from below or as diminished from above, and, being the sly fellow you are, you can make use of its duplicity just as you like.

I'll explain what I just said." She turned to look squarely at Captain Hudson. "I'll have to explain something else, too. I am not Lt. Charlotte Tennyson. I am her clone!

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.

Jut then I'm stuck by a truth so real it might as well be a bolt of lightning: there is no greater evil than the one that cloaks itself in virtue.

The smylere with the knyf under the cloke.

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.

How absolute the knave is!

Anyone who displays a capacity for double-dealing must forever be suspected of being capable of displaying it again.

There is nothing straight about you; no motive that hasn't another behind it; no statement that hasn't three meanings.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

Every inch that is not fool is rogue.

General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.