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Quotes About Duplicity

Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.
~ Alexander Pope
Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another
~ Alexandre Dumas
We cannot have another experience like we've had in my freshman class, of people saying one thing and doing another.
~ Mick Mulvaney
Every word was a cheat. Every thought and feeling was false. I played the game. Everything I touched, I cheapened.
~ Rich Shapero
Since each of us was copied at some point from a normal person, there must be, for each of us, somewhere out there, a model getting on with his or her life.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
What do you think she'd have said if we'd asked her? 'Excuse me, but do you think your friend was ever a clone model?' She'd have thrown us out. We know it, so we might as well just say it. If you want to look for possibles, if you want to do it properly, then you look in the gutter. You look in rubbish bins. Look down the toilet, that's where you'll find where we all came from.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Cyber trolls' deceptive manipulative, political power play, duplicity and devious hypocrisy cannot equate to true friendship.~ Angelica Hopes, K.H. Trilogy
~ Angelica Hopes
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
~ William Shakespeare
A very honest woman but something given to lie
~ William Shakespeare
She was as false as water.
~ William Shakespeare
There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark,But he's an arrant knave.
~ William Shakespeare
Look like the innocent flower,But be the serpent under 't.
~ William Shakespeare
And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd,That palter with us in a double sense;That keep the word of promise to our earAnd break it to our hope.
~ William Shakespeare
I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another.
~ William Shakespeare
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
~ William Shakespeare
Good now, play one sceneOf excellent dissembling, and let it lookLike perfect honor.
~ William Shakespeare
I am falser than vows made in wine.
~ William Shakespeare
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
~ William Shenstone
Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.
~ David Wong
I have known enough of women to understand they are as duplicitous and vicious as men. If they are capable of being our equals in malice, why not in our better qualities as well? There are no masculine virtues, Veronica. And none sacred to women either. We are all of us just people, and most badly flawed ones at that.
~ Deanna Raybourn
Dear Marie Tussaud, Fake people are everywhere, you do not have to waste wax creating them
~ Haritha Velpureddy
There is nothing worse than words of kindness that lie.
~ Juvenal
Hay algo vil, hay algo sucio en hacerse pasar por quien no se es, en conducirse taimadamente, en ganarse la confianza de otro tan sólo para traicionarla, aunque ese otro sea un malvado, un enemigo, un asesino.
~ Javier Marías
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
~ Jean de La Fontaine