Quotes About Duplicity

One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it. I

La insinceridad es un método con que multiplicar nuestras personalidades

My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

I think most people, and I'm talking vamp or human, are shitty. They put on an act. They pretend to be all nicey-nice, but are really just one step away from showing their true asshole-ness.

Neredeyse iÅŸitilir biçimde, Nas?l bu kadar ikiyüzlü olabiliyorsun? dedim, Her ne kadar yetinmeye çal??san da kurtulmak için can? gönülden dua ettiÄŸin bu duruma ÅŸükran duyarm?? gibi yap?yorsun?

Duplicity thy name is woman!

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

lying is probably the most human gesture anyone can make, because humans all say one thing and do another

The worst of men generally have the words rogue and villain most in their mouths, as the lowest of all wretches are the aptest to cry out low in the pit.

Backstabbing occurs when a friend agrees with you when the tow of you are alone but later sides with your opponents in a social setting.

although her mouth uttered fond words, her eyes spoke only venom.

If their own duplicity deserts human beings, then the roles are reversed: it is the machine that goes gaga, that falters and becomes perverse, diabolic, ventriloquous. The duplicity merrily goes over to the other side. If subjective irony disappears - and it disappears in the play of the digital- then irony becomes objective. Or it becomes silence.

It was requisite for men to be thought what they really were not. To be and to appear became two very different things, and from this distinction sprang pomp and knavery, and all the vices which form their train.

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

a lie stands on one foot but the truth stands on 2.

A man can smile and smile yet still be a villain,' I quoted. (Or misquoted. It was probably Shakespeare, most quotations seem to be.)

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.

We have not one but two killers. And as implausible as it sounds, I don't think either one knew about the other.

When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.

Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.

One may smile, and smile, and be a villain; at least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!