"Double-dealer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... patriarch of Constantinople, received the sentence of St. Simplicius against Cnapheus, but supported Mongus against him and the Catholic church, promoted the Henoticon, and was a notorious changeling, double-dealer, and artful hypocrite, who often made religion serve his own private ends. St. Simplicius at length discovered his artifices, and redoubled his zeal to maintain the holy faith which he saw betrayed on ...
— The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - January, February, March • Alban Butler
... brought out the Double Dealer, a comedy in which all the powers which had produced the Old Bachelor showed themselves, matured by time and improved by exercise. But the audience was shocked by the characters of Maskwell and Lady Touchwood. ...
— Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) • Thomas Babington Macaulay |
