Quotes About Duplicity

A very honest woman but something given to lie

Surely the hypocrites strive to deceive Allah, and He shall requite their deceit to them, and when they stand up to prayer they stand up sluggishly; they do it only to be seen of men and do not remember Allah save a little. (The Women 4.142)

Now what I love in women is, they won't or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it so well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

It's not a baby, it's a copy of me, made with code." Amena folded her arms and looked intensely skeptical. "That you and ART made together, with code. Code which both of you are also made out of.

No, I impersonated my client. My imaginary client. That I impersonated." I was caught in a loop for a second there.

an enemy is not more baneful than a flatterer.

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.

they also abjured what they saw as the manipulation and duplicity of the political newspapers, which, they claimed, sacrificed "every principle of freedom" for the short-term gain of whichever party they happened to favor.

The unity on the right is in fact prima facie evidence of its duplicity.

The politician is an acrobat he keeps his balance by doing the opposite of what he says.

The world is full up with the talented impersonators of the Devil!

They're going to come in here and blow smoke up your ass,' the coach was saying. 'They're going to give you blow jobs , tell you how great you are, they're going to pile it on thick…

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

Two of us could play the lying game.

No, you shall be, my faith! Tartuffified.

What! Just because a rascal boldly duped you With pompous show of false austerity, Must you needs have it everybody's like him, And no one's truly pious nowadays?

There are three signs of a hypocrite: when he speaks he speaks lies, when he makes a promise he breaks it, and when he is trusted he betrays his trust.

Business is two-faced, hypocritical self-interest diplomacy.

Cruelty has a polite mask of hypocrisy. The more deceitful the person, the more polite his tone.

There was no greater hypocrite than one with a high moral tone, Miss Marple reflected.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.