Quotes About Duplicity

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

They lie deadly that tell you have good faces.

And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad.

Let him forever go!-Let him not, Charmian. Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon, The other way he's a Mars.

I do most earnestly beg you not to be diverted from the highway of sound policy in this part of the world, both during the war and at the settlement, by wanderings into the labyrinth of Turkish duplicity and intrigue.

there followed a period lasting for about three months of Turkish hesitation and delay, having the effect of consummate duplicity

Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool.

Ourika, beware; sometimes reserve leads to duplicity.

There is nothing that can tear a person to pieces like religious hypocrisy – teaching one thing and practicing another.

You fault me for having standards?' Sebastian countered icily. 'Not at all. I fault you for having two sets of them.' ~ Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent & Cam Rohan.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.-Jerome K. Jerome

Beware of copycats

And the greatest tragedy of our age is we don't listen to our consciences. We don't say what we think. We feel one thing and do another.

hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue

Fake realities will create fake humans. Or, fake humans will generate fake realities and then sell them to other humans, turning them, eventually, into forgeries of themselves.

Honey in the mouth, Dagger in the stomach

Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied.

Donde haya una cosa verdadera o útil, con seguridad habrá una falsificación.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Supporter: Someone who will say anything.

The duplicity of Mrs. Pink in having concealed the existence of a husband was enthusiastically condemned by one and all. She was variously described as sly, deceitful, and even—ultimate reproach—as no better than she should be.

You're trying to appear as harmless as a lamb. But we both know you're not." "I have lamblike moments," Tom said. At her dubious glance, he insisted, "I'm having one right now. I'm one hundred percent lamb.

I fool you. I fool everyone.