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Quotes About Duplicity

Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once.
~ Anais Nin
Ayn? zamanda hem içten olmak, hem de öyle görünmek olas? deÄŸil.
~ Andre Gide
Funny or not, the story reveals something distasteful about Sita: She will lie when it suits her needs.
~ Sam Harris
Johannes Burchard. The only man in Rome whose face remains the same be it perfume or shit under his nose.
~ Sarah Dunant
Mind you, I'm a great admirer of our species. I stand in awe of the genius of the race. But a large part of this genius is devoted to lying and seeming what you are not.
~ Saul Bellow
Scratch an altruist and watch a hypocrite bleed.
~ John Burnett
If you're getting fucked, then you're getting fucked. But if you're getting fucked by someone who's smiling, then you're really getting fucked.
~ John Connolly
A hypocrite cannot hide a longer its hypocrisy and breaks the reality itself that it poses. It just disgusts and repels harmony and unity.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
As only a diamond cuts another diamond accurately; similarly, a lie breaks another lie precisely; however, the outcome stays in the same context with different use and form. It is the world where the human has been breathing for centuries in such various objects and subjects.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Behind every fake exists a real one.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Between a liar and lawyer, the differential is only the spelling, but the characteristically is the same on both.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Conditions in goodness are a route of hypocrisy.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
The false, fake, and pretended qualities such as generosity, sincerity, fidelity, love, honesty, and justice hold a beautiful outer and an ugly inner coffin; when one opens and searches the reality in that, it only realizes the emptiness of that or faces contradicting context of that; thus, burying such a coffin is better. Those who understand this point; live in pleasure and those, who don't understand, live in worry.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Most parents are so convinced of their little darling's innocence that, by proxy, in rallying for junior's purity they come to believe in their own innocence—as if duplicating oneself will make a right!
~ Anthony Marais
Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Ordinary hypocrites pretend to be doves; political and literary hypocrites pretend to be eagles. But don't be disconcerted by their aquiline appearance. They are not eagles, but rats or dogs.
~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
We have the right to lie, but not about the heart of the matter.
~ Antonin Artaud
El hombre sólo es rico en hipocresía.
~ Antonio Machado
A devil is surrounded by befriended demons who smile before his face, but behind speak all ill & conspire evil plans against him only.
~ Anuj Somany
A person should not be so duffer to get carried away as supporter to the preaching words of the self-seekers who ask always the people to love themselves.
~ Anuj Somany
A stubborn supporter to a particular political party is no different from a politician who keeps changing the party to fulfill own benefits only unless and until he is a demented gossipmonger.
~ Anuj Somany
A vile person also has a pleasant smile often on own face.
~ Anuj Somany
Sycophants are like serpents because a person who keeps them is definitely bitten by them one day.
~ Anuj Somany
The more a person has oneself disgraced , the more the people around him/her are two-faced.
~ Anuj Somany