Quotes About Duplicity

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

Hypocrites can be very pious

I'm happy to see you've found a church home, Abby," her father said piously. For years he had led the prayer each Sunday at the First Methodist Church in Danesboro, and the other six days he had tirelessly practiced greed and manipulation. He had also steadily but discreetly pursued whiskey and women. An

The Clone Wars were yet another thing to be upset about. Everything about that conflict had been a lie. The Separatists had been this big enemy, and yet when the Empire was declared they'd melted away as if at the push of a button. The big corporations had staged the whole thing, Skelly was sure. Wars sold more ships, more weapons, and more medical devices. And in the Clone Wars, even the soldiers on both sides were manufactured goods.

Only the fakes survive.

Don't smile in my face but your being a different person behind close doors.

Haters will be all in your face wishing you good luck but behind your back praying to God you fall off.

I hate when someone talks sh.. about a person behind their back and calls them fake, but when that person happens to pass by, they play a role as a complete kiss ass, so who's fake now?

Some people should have two Facebook accounts. One for each face.

Some people are REAL. Some people are GOOD. Some people are FAKE. And some people are REAL GOOD at being FAKE.

Some people are real and some people are good. Some people are fake and some people are real good at being fake.

Practice what you preach. Don't preach faithful girls then go and practice on hoes.

Fella in business got to lie an' cheat, but he calls it somepin else. That's what's important. You go steal that tire an' you're a thief, but he tried to steal your four dollars for a busted tire. They call that sound business.

Fear is the white lipp'd sire Of subterfuge and treachery.

From a certain age onwards vanity and wisdom combine to ensure that the things we desire the most are those that seem not to matter to us. But in love, simple foresight—which is probably not real wisdom—forces us to develop this talent for duplicity early in life.

the only touchstone of merit seeming to me to be the way someone could be useful in connection with the one thing that seemed important—my love. Then, perhaps out of duplicity, or in a genuine surge of affection inspired by gratitude, by self-interest, and by all the physical features of Mme de Guermantes that nature had replicated in her nephew, I went on to add:

They're cloying, with their sancity-of-marriage act.

She was afraid of numbers the way some people are of spiders. The sight of them made her want to hide. What I loved about them, their clarity, was for her duplicity. Behind an innocent 2,or 5, or 9, she spied a mass of traps and pitfalls.

If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.

Always be nice to people to their face. Then when they turn around, berate the back of their head.

La hipocresía es un vicio, pero no estoy tan convencido de que la franqueza sea siempre una virtud.

Quizá sea, después de todo, el más hipócrita, ya que no hace nada por zafarse.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?