Double Life Quotes

• I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hypocrisy, Wicked, Would Be

  'The Importance of Being Earnest' (1895) act 2

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• If you're gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Funny, Life

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• If someone wants to lead a double life, they will find a way to do it. And they can promise you things until your nerves unfold and you can finally put up your feet. But it can all be a lie. There are no guarantees, even when people mean what they say at the time. People change their minds. People die. And the hurt is as real as a baseball bat.

  Stephanie Klein

  Baseball, Hurt, Real

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• Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Life, Power, Unique

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• Nothing spells shame like living what feels like a double life.

  Angel Grant

  Shame, Feels, Spells

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• I live an artistic double life: one of classical realism and the other of aesthetic exploration.

  Alton Tobey

  Artistic, Exploration, Realism

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• More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor

  Bill W.

  People, Actors, Alcoholics

  Bill W., Dick B (2011). “Alcoholics Anonymous: The Original 1939 Edition”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both.

  Yvonne De Carlo

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?

  Leon Wieseltier

  Thinking, Two, Said

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• It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

  Bill Condon

  Thinking, Interesting, Actors

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• I would have met Jesus sooner if not for Christians who led double lives.

  Keith Green

  Christian, Jesus, Religion

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• I know it's not strictly sex that accounts for my straying the motive usually attributed to men. I think it's just too tempting to have two lives rather than one. Some people think that too much travel begets infidelity: Separation and opportunity test the bonds of love. I think it's more likely that people who hate to make choices to settle on one thing or another are attracted to travel. Travel doesn't beget a double life. The appeal of the double life begets travel.

  Elisabeth Eaves

  Sex, Hate, Men

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• There are some qualities, some incorporate things, that have a double life, which thus is made. A type os twin entity which springs from matter and light, envinced in solid and shade.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Spring, Light, Quality

  Edgar Allan Poe, “Sonnet - Silence”

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• All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.

  Anne Carson

  Mean, Two, Patterns

  Anne Carson (2009). “The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos”, p.31, Vintage

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• Working mothers' laughter comes hardest when our double life is revealed for what it is: a juggling act in which the balls can drop at any time, invariably on our own head.

  Allison Pearson

  Mother, Laughter, Balls

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• As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Goodbye, Farewell, Love Is

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• A single girl must lead a double life don't you think?

  Christina Stead

  Girl, Thinking, Single Girl

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• During the whole 'Jeopardy' experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. 'Jeopardy' tries very hard to keep their secrets.

  Ken Jennings

  Flying, Secret, Trying

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• When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

  John Phillips

  Writing, Character, Past

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• Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens.

  Dana Gioia

  Children, Secret Identity, Stories

  Dana Gioia (2002). “Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture”, Graywolf Pr

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• A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer - to be living a kind of double life.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Loneliness, Writing, Dreamer

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• Sometimes I'd knock on the door of somebody I was going to school with, so it was like living a double life.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  School, Doors, Sometimes

  Interview with Milla Jovovich, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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• I'm pretty down to earth, I always have been and though I am on a much different path than most 25 year olds, I feel like I have a bit of a double life. We will go on tour for weeks at a time, but when I come home, I feel like I am picking up where I left off.

  Tristan Prettyman

  Home, Years, Different

  Source: www.roomthirteen.com

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• In one way or another, every parent is curious what their children... what are they doing when we don't see?... What double lives are they leading? Is there something else?

  Herman Koch

  Children, Parent, Way

  "'The Dinner' Asks: What Will You Do To Protect Your Family?". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.capeandislands.org. February 18, 2013.

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• We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition.

  Greg Kinnear

  Jobs, Thinking, Faces

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