Quotes About Duplicity

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

I'm a liar, but this is the truth. I

But I have told the truth. Isn't that ironic? They sent me because I am so good at telling lies. But I have told the truth.

He said likewiseThat a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies,That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright,But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

Well, technically, we'd be re-stealing them," he said dryly. "It's kind of like a double negative.

Here's the thing about lying: a part of you has to mean it—even if it is a tiny, sinister, shred that only lives in the blackest, darkest parts of your mind. You have to want it to be true.

Professional politicians will say anything, and they're always careful to leave themselves room to turn around and do the other.

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

Simplicity is freedom. Duplicity is bondage. Simplicity brings joy and balance. Duplicity brings anxiety and fear.

No matter," said Pablo with the dignity of a great magician. "I can fake a Picasso as well as any thief in Europe.

Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.

Caroline said easily, amazed all over again at this sudden facility she'd developed, the fluidity and ease of her lies.

She thought of a new way to kill my love for the beautiful Munchkin maiden, and made my axe slip again, so that it cut right through my body, splitting me into two halves.

The devil's most devilish when respectable.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

Unhappiness and misfortune attend those who are voluntarily feeble. "Their defect deprived them of the joy derived from happy efforts. They will be the prey of duplicity and untruth. "They are the vanquished in life, and scarcely deserve the pity of the conqueror; for their defeat lacks grandeur, since it has never been aurioled by the majestic strength of conflict.

No human being can be so honest as to become completely false.

And then there are many who lead the life of duplicity, not realizing that as they disguise themselves away from others, more they drift away from themselves. It's a poetic justice that the web of deceit and duplicity they begin to weave inside out, thus always turns around to return home outside in.

Dexter liked the Irish, was drawn to them, although time and again they had proved untrustworthy. It wasn't duplicity so much as a constitutional weakness that might have been the booze or might have been what drove them to it. You wanted a mick to help you dream up schemes, but in the end you needed a wop or a Jew or a Polack to bring them off.

What scum respectable people are!

Was für Schurken, diese ehrbaren Leute!

HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

No other mammal is as deceitful as the human being.