Quotes About Duplicity

un monaco, il quale in ogni cosa era santissimo fuor che nell'opera delle femine; e questo sapeva sí cautamente fare che quasi niuno, non che il sapesse, ma né suspicava, per che santissimo e giusto era tenuto in ogni cosa.

Nothing like truth to leaven a good lie.

they ain't never met nobody they didn't lie to and steal from.

There's a special place in hell for men who convince women their intuition is insecurity to protect their duplicity.

There is so much hypocrisy in sports.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

When the sweet talkin's done, a man is a two face, a worrisome thing who'll leave you to sing the blues in the night.

Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

You can either be a con or a man—you can't be both.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Can anger survive without his hypocrisy?

I'm hypersensitive to negativity and duplicity, and I want to push it away by writing comedy. Maybe that hypersensitivity comes across and allows me to play dastardly, multi-layered people.

If you quietly accept and go along no matter what your feelings are, ultimately you internalize what you're saying, because it's too hard to believe one thing and say another.

In my world, the self-righteous are often the ones sneaking around getting blow jobs before they go home to the wives and kiddies.

words were nothing but foolery and cheating.

Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.

If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.

Judas did not make only one kiss. (Judas n'a pas fait qu'une seule bise)

T]hey somehow conveyed to me that they were all toadies and humbugs, but that each of them pretended not to know that the others were toadies and humbugs: because the admission that he or she did know it, would have made him or her out to be a toady and humbug.

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