Double-Dealing Quotes

The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.

Talleyrand is a silk stocking filled with mud.

People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember. Writers are always selling somebody out.

In Indian politics, deception seems a byword. I'll have none of that.

I'm a traitor, but I don't consider myself a traitor.

… insidious traitors

I don't want corporate America to think they can continue their duplicitous double-dealing.

Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with cheerful face, And utter with a double tongue The feigned good wishes of his wary mind.

The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.

Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.

Nations … robbed each other in English, and fooled each other in French

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

The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.

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

He who serves two masters has to lie to one.

...I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman.

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

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

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.

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

[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.

Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.

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

A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to themselves.