Duplicitous Nature Quotes

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

Do you take me for a sponge, my lord? hamlet: Ay, sir; that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again. rosencrantz: I understand you not, my lord. hamlet: I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.

The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.

An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

He look'd a little disorder'd, when he said this, but I did not apprehend any thing from it at that time, believing as it us'd to be said, that they who do those things never talk of them; or that they who talk of such things never do them.

Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bare ass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.

I don't like words coming out of a character's mouth that I adore because not only is he a little bit duplicitous but he's kind of practical in the way he thinks, and he thinks in terms of everyone's humanity and how quickly we can go against what we think we meant when we said it or what we believe or blah, blah, blah.

Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.

Whitney: You black-hearted, treacherous, conniving scoundrel. Clayton: Your flattery warms my heart

You know that if you lie to yourself, surely other people lie to themselves. And if they lie to themselves, they will lie to you also.

For every inch that is not fool, is rogue.

Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.

The world is made up, for the most part, of fools and knaves, both irreconcileable foes to truth.

Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!

Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of every day, and keep a regular debtor and creditor account with heaven, which shall always show a floating balance in their own favour.

A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.

I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet.

Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.

Dames lie about anything - just for practice.