Duplicity Quotes
33 quotes by 28 authors
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A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.
— Honore de Balzac
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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will…
— Anita Brookner
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When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live…
— John F. Kerry
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The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from…
— Alfred Kinsey
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Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story of the duality…
— Stanley Kubrick
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It is a fair adornment of a man and a great convenience both to himself and to all those with whom he converses and deals,…
— Isaac Barrow
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Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of…
— Rich Mullins
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There’s a special place in hell for men who convince women their intuition is insecurity to protect their duplicity.
— dream hampton
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Avoid duplicity, that is, do not let your heart be divided between attachment to God and attachment to earthly things, 'You cannot serve God and…
— John of Kronstadt
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A duplicitous country with a duplicitous leadership is going to give us more duplicity. And that duplicity is going lead us off an abyss. That's…
— Matt Shea
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A wartime Minister of Information is compelled, in the national interest, to such continuous acts of duplicity that even his natural hair must grow to…
— Claud Cockburn
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If I try to use human influence strategies and tactics of how to get other people to do what I want, to work better, to…
— Stephen Covey
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What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without…
— Joseph Joubert
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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
— Blaise Pascal
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The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it if, day after…
— Boris Pasternak
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Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who…
— Khalil Gibran
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Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal…
— Anais Nin
Who Wrote These Duplicity Quotes
28 authors contributed a total of 33 Duplicity Quotes, led by these top contributors: