Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

He's the kind of guy who will stab you in the back right to your face.

What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?

The thing I'm having a hard time with are the Christians who will stab you in the back in a wink.

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.

You have to be 100% behind someone, before you can stab them in the back.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

The same people who smile in my face would be the same ones to talk behind my back.

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.

I know that there are people in the industry who praise me in person and then stab me in the back.

A politician normally flatters you in your face and criticises you behind your back.

[Politicians] - they'll give you everything you want to your face - and then, as you walk away, they'll shoot you in the back because it's fun to watch you die.

We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

I've always said it's interesting to watch devils cry when angels want to stab you in the back. I like that mixture.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

In Hollywood, they put the knife in your front; in D.C., they put it in your back. I found far fewer duplicitous people in Hollywood.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.

Too often in politics the stiletto is slipped between your shoulder blades, while its wielder continues to smile sweetly.

He that praiseth publickly will slander privately.

As to you, sir, treacherous in private friendship and … a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an imposter, whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any.

He’s a turncoat if there ever was one.