Two Faced Quotes

“When I see you, I think "I wonder which face she sees when she looks into the mirror.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“A circle of friends, doesn't always keep perfect relationships.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Everyone wanted to see [him] fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army of sycophants had turned into a horde of hungry hyenas”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Such a disappointment when you defend someone for so long thinking they are different and they turn out to be just like what everyone said.”
― Khayri R.R. Woulfe

“[He] had the hard eyes of the disciplinarian and the smile of a man who must be tactful and pleasant to many people.”
― A.E. van Vogt, The World of Null-A

“Those who clap you on the back with one hand may clench envy's mask behind theirs with the other.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Courtesy of tongue," said Rowena, "when it is used to veil churlishness of deed, is but a knight's girdle around the breast of a base clown.["]”
― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“When it came time for me to go to bed, my mother beckoned me to her, and kissed me, and whispered, "I know I'll never have another anxious moment with my own dear laddie." I pondered these words before I went to sleep. How could I reconcile this motherliness with the screeching fury who had pursued me around the kitchen with a whip, flogging me until she was gorged with — what? Vengeance? What was it? Once, when I was in my thirties and reading Freud for the first time, I thought I knew. I am not so sure I know now. But what I knew then was that nobody— not even my mother— was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself on the surface.”
― Robertson Davies, Fifth Business

“He smiled when he talked, a smile that was not completely cold, but was the professional smile of a man who spends his days answering easy questions for people whom he’d rather usher out of his office via catapult.”
― Cherie Priest, Dreadnought

“Now, to be sure, Mrs Varden thought, here is a perfect character. Here is a meek, righteous, thoroughgoing Christian, who, having mastered all these qualities, so difficult of attainment; who, having dropped a pinch of salt on the tails of all the cardinal virtues, and caught them everyone; makes light of their possession, and pants for more morality. For the good woman never doubted (as many good men and women never do), that this slighting kind of profession, this setting so little store by great matters, this seeming to say, ‘I am not proud, I am what you hear, but I consider myself no better than other people; let us change the subject, pray’—was perfectly genuine and true. He so contrived it, and said it in that way that it appeared to have been forced from him, and its effect was marvellous.

Aware of the impression he had made—few men were quicker than he at such discoveries—Mr Chester followed up the blow by propounding certain virtuous maxims, somewhat vague and general in their nature, doubtless, and occasionally partaking of the character of truisms, worn a little out at elbow, but delivered in so charming a voice and with such uncommon serenity and peace of mind, that they answered as well as the best. Nor is this to be wondered at; for as hollow vessels produce a far more musical sound in falling than those which are substantial, so it will oftentimes be found that sentiments which have nothing in them make the loudest ringing in the world, and are the most relished.”
― Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge

“When David and I went to visit my mom, she treated me well and seemed interested in our lives, focusing less on what she needed from me or how I should be taking care of her.

Mom saved those conversations for our daily phone calls because she thought David wouldn't find out about this other side other. But he could see the changes in me when I talked to my mom.”
― Olga Trujillo, The Sum of My Parts: A Survivor's Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder

“The amazing face of the motherly mammal of a seal near the oceanic shore has more honesty to offer to our world than the unreliable feature of a two-faced politician.”
― Munia Khan

“Typos and type shifts can change true friends into thorough fiends.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Papi will have two funerals.
Papi will have two ceremonies.

Papi will be mourned in two countries.
Papi will be said goodbye to here and there.

Papi had two lives.
Papi has two daughters.

Papi was a man split in two,
playing a game against himself.

But the problem with that
is that in order to win, you also have to lose.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“A smiling assassin will always show you the white of his teeth as he smiles with happiness.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“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

“Bad friends say nice things to your face, and then turn around and paint you black.”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“I judge him to be one who is not false save only in policy.”
― E.R. Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros

“My parents were two-faced. To me, they showed no mercy. They preached from theBook of Fallen Children - Commandment 1: The Child Is Always Ungrateful. At eighteen, the free ride would stop, and I'd be dumped into the mess of the world. But in their private moments, they were soft, cowed by love. They critiqued their own parenting skills and thought of all the ways the could help their kids get ahead.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood

“Monster was such a subjective word. It was what they called the demons that made up the Regime. Perhaps it was what the demons called them. Yet they all looked alike, so perhaps neither of them were monsters—or perhaps both sides were.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Hopebreaker

“Hypocrites preach morality but live a shameful life.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“But then, such is an ocean. Seemingly serene and soothing, even while powerful currents tear through its depths. And likewise, such are people, I remember as I look at him. You never really know what’s underneath the face they show you. Usually not until it’s too late.”
― Melanie A. Smith, Vegas Baby

“Perhaps the most crucial choice we make in life is who to trust.”
― Stewart Stafford

“And he said...

...smiles will seldom exist outside of one's eyes.”
― Anthony T. Hincks