Ricky Gervais Quotes

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

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

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

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

Do not turn your back on anyone. You may be painted on one side only.

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

Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.

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.

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

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

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.

Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

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

Be careful of your enemy once and of your friend a thousand times, for a double crossing friend knows more about what harms you.

Politics—where they pat you on the back so they'll know where to stick the knife.

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.

Judas betrayed Jesus. Lady Red betrayed John Dillinger. Those things happen.

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

I don't like people going behind my back.

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

By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's.

[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.