Duplicity Quote by Honore de Balzac Download Open image “A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.” — Honore de Balzac ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Duplicity Flow Language
“A coalescence of verbose convolution, veering on imperceptibility, impinges upon a plain proclamation an apparent profundity.” — Kevin Focke Copy Share Image
“A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect.” — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“When someone can fill such words with the depth of meaning that they are intended to have, it's like hearing them for the first… — Orville Schell Copy Share Image
“How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Oh, my friend, when you love, love a woman whom you are sure that you can love always. Never forsake a woman.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“You have broken the ice, though you have not even scratched its glossy surface: you have placed your hand upon the croup of the most ferocious and savage, the most wakeful and clear-sighted, the most restless, the swiftest, the most jealous, the most ardent and violent, the simplest and most elegant, the most unreasonable, the most watchful chimera of the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion and of the lamb, Prayer! Prayer will give you the key of heaven! Bold and pure as innocence, strong, like all that is single and simple, this glorious, invincible Queen rests, nevertheless, on the material world;… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share
All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
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 all its might and main, what it is, and makes one and the same impression and effect at all times. All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle's, and of a rabbit, rabbit's. But a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
“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 Copy Share Image
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 be more motivated, to like me and each other-while my character is fundamentally flawed, marked by duplicity and insincerity-then, in the long run, I cannot be successful. My duplicity will breed distrust, and everything I… — Anonymous Copy Share
The upside of being in the closet is that you develop skills of duplicity, which are great for big-time politicians. — Kirby Dick Copy Share Image
