Quotes About Duplicity

We are betrayed by what is false within.

Affected simplicity is refined imposture.

For that man is detested by me as the gates of hell, whose outward words conceal his inmost thoughts.

Hypocrites are double-edged knives.

How'm I doin'? Jim asked in his own voice—hey, he could talk out of the bastard's mouth, too. Across the way, Adrian shrugged. Pretty damn good—I can't sense you. But I gotta ask—the pair of you want a cigarette? Or are you going for a twofer?

It's hypocrisy of men makes these hills grim

I crave truth. And I lie.

There are no such enemies So dire as good people, They will rob you, mournfully, And condemn you, weeping, They'll invite you to their home, Welcome you profusely, Ask you all about yourself, To mock and abuse you, Later, mock at you and jeer, To grab you for sure... Without enemies on earth Somehow one can endure. But those good people yet will Everywhere beset you, Even in the other world They will not forget you.

You sparkle with larceny.

It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man.

Look twice at a two-faced man.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

For a long time I have not said what I believed, nor do I ever believe what I say. And if sometimes I do happen to tell the truth, I hide it among so many lies that it is hard to find.

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

besides, how can you cheat a cheater?

This act brought on a crisis in the career of the general commanding. He had asserted from the beginning that the administration was hostile to him; that it had failed in its promises of men and war material; that the President himself had shown duplicity if not treachery in the endeavor to procure the appointment of Benton: and the administration now gave open evidence of its enmity.

L'italiano è infido, bugiardo, vile, traditore, si trova più a suo agio con il pugnale che con la spade, meglio con il veleno che col farmaco, viscido nella trattativa, coerente solo nel cambiar bandiera a ogni vento.

To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.

Those who have the most cunning affect all their lives to condemn cunning; that they may make use of it on some great occasion, and to some great end.

Duplicity is necessary in daily life, in that it covers many unpleasant things from sight, so they may not disturb the pleasure of others.

I'm the most fluent liar in the world, I'm the coolest, the smoothest. A lie, Savich thought.

In fact, I do not believe there is an honest man alive without some pretension,

There is only one way to tell the truth, but there are myriad ways to live a lie.