Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick…

A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times,…

— Joseph Joubert

You have to be closer to religious origins -- the generation of the 20's was truly secular in that it still knew its theology…

— Ann Douglas

Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks…

— Germaine Greer

Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of…

— Karen DeCrow

“There is a perfect rout of characters in every man—and every man is like an actor’s trunk, full of strange creatures, new & old.…

— Wallace Stevens

“A moment ago you were a smart, independent individual and now you claim to be a silly, ignorant pawn. You cannot be both. Make…

— Vincent H. O'Neil

I see nothing quite conclusive in the art of temporal government, But violence, duplicity and frequent malversation. King rules or barons rule: The strong…

— Samuel Smiles

Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.

— Bill Vaughan

What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day…

— Boris Pasternak

If I try to use human influence strategies and tactics of how to get other people to do what I want, to work better,…

— Anonymous

The upside of being in the closet is that you develop skills of duplicity, which are great for big-time politicians.

— Kirby Dick

“It is important for a woman to have the duplicity to make good use of whatever gifts she might have, however valueless they might…

— Anne O'Brien

“Sometimes duplicity and treason are markers of the enemy, and sometimes, the failed intention of a masterful ally. But, nevertheless, as they burden you…

— Anonymous

I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge of others.

— William Shakespeare