Deception / duplicity

Quote

Character

Act/Scene

“Tis figured in my tongue”

Richard III

Act 1 Scene 2

“I am subtle, false, and treacherous”

Richard III

Act 1 Scene 1

“Why strew’st thou sugar on that bottled spider, / Whose deadly web ensnareth thee about?”

Margaret (to Elizabeth about Richard III)

Act 1 Scene 3

“I clothe my naked villainy”

Richard III

Act 1 Scene 3

“And seem a saint when most I play the devil.”

Richard III

Act 1 Scene 3

“And with a virtuous visor hide deep vice”

Duchess of York (about Richard III)

Act 2 Scene 2

“Nor more can you distinguish of a man / Than of his outward show, which, . . . / Seldom or never jumpeth with the heart”

Richard III

Act 3 Scene 1

“Attended to their sugared words / But looked not on the poison of their hearts”

Richard III

Act 3 Scene 1

“For by his face straight shall you know his heart”

Hastings (about Richard III)

Act 3 Scene 4

“To fall / By the false faith of him who most I trusted”

Buckingham

Act 5 Scene 1