Ben Jonson Quotes

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

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

I'm interested in people that can say one thing and have completely different motives behind that.

He could shake your hand and stab you in the back at the same time.

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

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

His mouth is for export and his head has no entrance.

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

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

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

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

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

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

A creep is someone who claims he's one thing but he's actually another.

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

I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

An interview will seem very sane to me, and I'll find out that the journalist was laughing out of the side of his mouth half of the time.

Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.

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

It is of great consequences to disguise your inclination, and to play the hypocrite well.

You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.

People are not what they seem. Some of them are sweet and kind to you, but that's not their real face.

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

I tolerate lots of people I have no patience or respect for. Then, as soon as I can, I rat on them.

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