Duplicity Quotes

“And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“For this can be said of men in general: that they are ungrateful, fickle, hypocrites and dissemblers, avoiders of dangers, greedy for gain; and while you benefit them, they are entirely yours, offering you their blood, their goods, their life, their children,...when need is far away, but when you actually become needy, they turn away. (translated by Wayne A. Rebhorn)”
― Machiavelli Niccolo, The Prince

“The next morning the sea was calm again, the sun was shining, and the water was so blue and innocent a man might never know that under it my brother floated, dead with all his men.”
― George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood

“I want a History of Looking. For the Photograph is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of consciousness from identity. Even odder: it was before Photography that men had the most to say about the vision of the double. Heautoscopy was compared with an hallucinosis; for centuries this was a great mythic theme.”
― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

“I love you more than I planned”
― Julez, Duplicity

“We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.”
― Francois De La Rochefoucault

“When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.”
― Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

“I suspect that 'Kindness and Cruelty' and 'Mercy and Justice' all have secret affairs, as though they rendezvous only within certain sophisticated souls: those who hate being offensive, but love telling the truth.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“In my most darkest and alone moments, I always wished someone would´ve been there to give me a hug”
― Julez , Duplicity

“They were so absorbed in their plotting that they did not hear Boule de Suif return. But the Comte's whispered 'shh!' made them all look up. There she was. A sudden silence fell, and at first a feeling of embarrassment prevented them from speaking to her. At last, however, the Comtesse, more of an adept than the rest in social duplicity, asked her: 'Did you enjoy the christening?”
― Guy de Maupassant, Selected Short Stories

“Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!
Give me back my book and take my kiss instead.
Was it my enemy or my friend I heard,
"What a big book for such a little head!"
Come, I will show you now my newest hat,
And you may watch me purse my mouth and prink!
Oh, I shall love you still, and all of that.
I never again shall tell you what I think.
I shall be sweet and crafty, soft and sly;
You will not catch me reading any more:
I shall be called a wife to pattern by;
And some day when you knock and push the door,
Some sane day, not too bright and not too stormy,
I shall be gone, and you may whistle for me.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

“There be many wise men, that have secret hearts, and transparent countenances.”
― Francis Bacon

“We are nothing but lies, duplicity, contradiction, and we hide and disguise ourselves from ourselves.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“Cyber trolls' deceptive manipulative, political power play, duplicity and devious hypocrisy cannot equate to true friendship.~ Angelica Hopes, K.H. Trilogy”
― Angelica Hopes

“It’s when you want to get something for nothing that the ‘confidence men’ steal the money you sweat for and make the farmer a laughing stock.”
― Booth Tarkington, The Gentleman from Indiana

“The duplicity of others must always be shocking when one is unconscious of one's own.”
― Eric Ambler, The Mask of Dimitrios

“All professions have some element of theater to them.”
― David Halberstam, The Powers That Be

“But you have no understanding of the depths of Kashmiri duplicity, Musa thought but did not say. You have no idea how a people like us, who have survived a history and a geography such as ours, have learned to drive our pride underground. Duplicity is the only weapon we have. You don’t know how radiantly we smile when our hearts are broken. How ferociously we can turn on those we love while we graciously embrace those whom we despise. You have no idea how warmly we can welcome you when all we really want is for you to go away. Your thermometer is quite useless here.”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“It’s not sufficient to know that something is wrong. You also have to appreciate why it is wrong, how things might be changed, and then persuade others of the new possibilities.”
― David Sharpley, 7 Principles for Exceptional Performance: Develop Purpose, Motivation & Leadership Skills

“In order to reveal to all eyes what he was made of, I wanted to break open the handsome wax-figure I presented everywhere.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“No man, for any considerable
period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“As the map of the Great Plain was being redrawn by a young Shazarian councillor, the ageing Shylonian king interrupted mid-speech to ask him his name. With a piercing glare and a haughty flick of his cloak, he retorted ‘Lord Ratilla, Shazarian Imperial Secretary, and who might you be?’ Behind the gasps of horror, the message was clear. It was Shazaria who now bestrode the Amaran world, henceforth the office of Shazarian minister now held greater prestige than even that of foreign monarchs. What became even clearer were the depths of Shazarian treachery. The impudent youth who stood before the kings of Amara stripping them of ancient provinces, was the same adolescent reputed to have delivered an eloquent speech which swayed the Shazarian councillors in favour of war.
Had this been their intention all along?”
― A. H. Septimius, Crowns Of Amara: The Return Of The Oracle

“This ia fast-paced page-turner with suspense in every chapter.”
― Raymond Knowles

“If Arnold's leap to the British was to succeed, Peggy must play the innocent as his cheerful and charming young wife.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married

“Pegg, cowering in her bedroom, asked her housekeeper to check on the ailing Varick. Then, willing herself in to a frenzy, she tore at her hair and clothes, weeping, her sobs accelerating in volume.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married

“A moment ago you were a smart, independent individual and now you claim to be a silly, ignorant pawn. You cannot be both. Make up your mind.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation

“He’s duplicitous by nature, and no doubt expects the same of everyone he meets.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, The Gathering Elements

“I had to take a leaf out of her book. Smile to her face, but hold a knife to her back.”
― Philip Anthony Smith, The Woman He Left Behind

“She was a chameleon that changed to suit her audience, providing them with whatever they desired. With her, you felt cleverer, braver, stronger than with anyone else.”
― Byrd Nash, Delicious Death

“- Un prieten este un al doilea sine, îi spuse Ugo, devenind brusc interesat și ridicându-și capul de pe brațe. […]
Așa zic filosofii, că doi prieteni sunt un singur suflet împărțit în două trupuri, doar că Miro nu mă avea doar pe mine, ci voia să fie prieten cu toți, așa că era precum hidra din Lerna cu un trup de șarpe și mai multe capete monstruoase. […]
- Sunt oameni care au o inimă mai largă, un suflet mai mare în care pot locui mai mulți prieteni.”
― Ana-Maria Negrilă, Grădina alchimiștilor