Quotes About Duplicity

The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

Hypocrite - mouth one way, belly 'nother way.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Every man is a hypocrite

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself.

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

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

The problem with Harry was that he didn't just pick one lie and stick with it.

So, to their own unutterable torment, they go about among their fellow-creatures, looking pure as new-fallen snow, while their hearts are all speckled and spotted with iniquity of which they cannot rid themselves.

Denn kein Mensch kann für längere Zeit sich selbst das eine und der Menge ein anderes Gesicht zeigen, ohne am Ende in Verwirrung zu geraten, welches das echt ist.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

I do not wish to be the harbinger of doom, he said, mournfully, but this is a secret ballot. I'm sure there'll be quite a few who support Scythe Curie to her face, but will vote for Goddard when no one is looking.

They have yet to grasp that the disenfranchised do not hate them for their values. They hate them because of their duplicity, greed, use of indiscriminate industrial violence, and hypocrisy.

I'm interested in people that can say one thing and have completely different motives behind that.

Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem, but always what you see.

We are betrayed by what is false within

Is that true? There is truth in it. And lies as well? There is an untruth, and an exaggeration.

Littlefinger looked like a boy who had just taken a furtive bite from a honeycomb. He was TRYING to watch for bees, but the honey was so sweet.

All men are born truthful, and die liars.

Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.

That a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies; That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright - But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.'

God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.