Quotes About Duplicity

When you look your most innocent is when you are up to something.' Revolving

There is nothing so inhuman as the mask of the good servant.

The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.

I don't think there is a single character in 'The Graduate' that is not a phony, to one degree or another, except Benjamin and Elaine, and only in the scenes when they are alone together.

When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Wade said hello here and there and people seemed glad to see him. But by that time they would have been glad to see Pittsburgh Phil with his custom-built ice-pick. Life was just one great big vaudeville show.

It was a triptych, three canvases hinged together to make one image when it was open, another image when it was closed. He had always assumed she liked the duplicity of the piece. It was just like Angie, one thing inside, another out.

It was a triptych, three canvases hinged together to make one image when it was open, another image when it was closed. He had always assumed she liked the duplicity of the piece. It was just like Angie, one thing inside, another out. Just like Michael Ormewood, come to think of it. What a perfect pair.

In Teddy's experience people who claimed to be one thing were generally the opposite

For this is the most civil sort of lie That can be given to a man's face. I now Say what I think.

Beware the man who has two faces and two hearts.

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.

A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.

A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

If she knew me as I really am she would despise me, and certainly not aid or abet my evil designs. To veil their vices from the sight of the good is the only resource of those who are not blind and know themselves to be vicious.' Thus was I confirmed in habits of hypocrisy; and these, for a time, worked only too effectually to my advantage.

The hypocrite in prayer juggles, he asks what he would not thank God to give him.