Quotes About Duplicity

Walpole sniffed, "to prostitute his character and authenticate his hypocrisy.

Always telling the truth is no doubt better than always lying, although equally pathological.

This game of constant duplicity most resembles the power dynamic that existed in the scheming world of the old aristocratic court.

The Father of Lies never lays simple plans

A man can smile and smile and be a villain.

You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.

I throw him two bones: a smile and a nod. Both lies.

Long as you say what people want to hear; you're a real one, but when you start speaking truth, they turn fake real quick. -MillYentei_D.Y.

My dear, the world is filled with brilliant, smiling monsters. I'm one who like to show his teeth.

Politics is now synonymous with hypocrisy

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't

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

Nothing ruins a face so fast as double-dealing. Your face telling one story to the world. Your heart yanking your face to pieces, trying to let the truth be known.

Married men get so they make a routine even of keeping a mistress

Being wrapped in duplicities can be isolating, and with the accumulation of time, can lead to corrosive shame and self-loathing.

People, they all have the word goodness on lips a bloody knife between their teeth.

You're two of a kind, and a bad kind.

And there is no realer man than I," Vanniv replied with a nod. "Excepting for the fact that I am a magically created copy of the original Vanniv, of course, and thus completely fake.

for verily I do say to you that those magicians are like whitened graves, beautiful on the outside but full of putrefaction and rotten bones on the inside!

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.

Typical of this place. All show and no substance. And just like these people, who were acting their hearts out in an attempt to persuade her that they were sophisticated, intelligent and entirely blameless in the matter of Tony Ferdinand's death.

Prime Minister, I see you've already mastered the essential craft of the European politician, namely, the ability to say one thing in this chamber and a very different thing to your home electorate.

Don't be righteous and a liar at the same time - I have a problem with that.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.