Quotes About Duplicity

A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to resemble a wig.

At the root of innumerable wrongs in our civilization is the discrepancy between word, creed and deed. It is the weakness of churches, states, parties, and persons. It gives men and institutions split personalities.

In retrospect, it seems clear that the ambiguous signals from the White House reflected more than duplicity on Roosevelt's part

Nadie se resignaba ya a ser en parte bueno y en parte malo, como siempre habían sido, sino que, enardecidos por la grandilocuencia de sus propias mentiras todos querían hacerse pasar por puros y perfectos.

Sin always involves us in being unreal, pretending, duplicity, window dressing, excusing ourselves and blaming others--and we can do all that as much by our silence as by saying or doing something. This

If he is not supposed to be that, then he is a hypocrite, and the higher he climbs on this path, the more dreadful a hypocrite he is.

I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.

Andrea was not very handsome, the hideous scoundrel

you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess." "My

The tendency to lie is one thing; lying is another.

The truth is overrated." Vick let the purse drop into his hand. "An actor should know that.

Si se puede traicionar a un hombre una vez, no es tan difícil hacerlo dos veces

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.

In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.

Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron.

Whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.

The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

That's the thing about funerals. They're completely hypocritical. Everyone says how wonderful the deceased was, how kind, how generous when, deep down, they know it's not true.

Set a thief to catch a thief

What does guile mean?" "Deceit, duplicity, dishonesty

I've written already, the trip could only be made feasible by a lie and of lying I'm afraid, not like a man of honour, but like a pupil.

In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights.

Des hommes, en effet, on peut dire généralement ceci: qu'ils sont ingrats, changeants, simulateurs et dissimulateurs, ennemis des dangers, avides de gain; et tant que tu leur fais du bien, ils sont tout à toi, t'offrent leur sang, leurs biens, leur vie, leurs enfants, comme j'ai dit plus haut, quand le besoin est lointain; mais quand il s'approche de toi, ils se dérobent.

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.