C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. Duplicity
Where nature’s end of language is declined, And men talk only to conceal the mind.
Young.
1 Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.
Pope.
2 I, I, I myself, sometimes, leaving the fear of heaven on the left hand, and hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch.Shakespeare.
3 O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side.
Shakespeare.
4 One dupe is as impossible as one twin.John Sterling.
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