Quotes About Duplicity

They looked like good people, but deep down they were pieces of shit. They often found they way into politics, and they talked about God, family values and country. They were the new cavaliers of the Catholic culture.

Rothstein worked with Park Avenue men as beards in the club-house, and with Broadway characters, such as Morris the Boob on The Lawn, and he probably bet away from the track, too.

Mesele ç?kmas?n diye elinizden geleni yap?yorsunuz!??te bu ikiyüzlülü?ünüze dayanam?yorum!

Si infâmes que soient les canailles, elles ne le sont jamais autant que les honnêtes gens.

Conheçais vós, vossa própria pusilanimidade, vossos mistérios, vossa perversidade, vossa ardileza e vossa feitiçaria.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Perhaps there is a lesson here about the complexity, even duplicity, we must embrace on the road to vocation, where we sometimes find ourselves needing to do the right thing for the wrong reason.

A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.

Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.

I simply gave her my most charming smile. I'd already told her the truth of things: I was no gentleman. I was a thief.

The true hypocrite knows what he is doing, and does it to his own advantage. The unconscious hypocrite is simply man in civilization.