double life

Example Sentences

• "He lived a double life as both a British diplomat and a Soviet spy."
• "[page 153] But perhaps the most remarkable illustration of a double life is one which has been brought before the notice of the scientific world recently; [...] "A sergeant of the French army, F——, twenty-seven years of age, was wounded at the Battle of Bazeilles, by a ball which fractured his left parietal bone. [...] [page 154] Three or four months after the wound was inflicted, periodic disturbances of the functions of the brain made their appearance, and have continued ever since. [...] For four years, therefore, the life of this man has been divided into alternating phases, short abnormal states intervening between long normal states.""
• "Nearly all great criminals lead double lives. Strange as it may appear, it is a fact that some of the most unscrupulous rascals who ever cracked a safe or turned out a counterfeit were at home model husbands and fathers. [...] I recall one desperate fellow who paid for his two little daughters' education at a convent in Canada, from which they were graduated well-bred and bright young ladies, without ever a suspicion of their father's business reaching them."
• "A man cannot live a lie and not be detected in it. He may sometimes live for years with a cloak about him, enveloping the dark side of his nature, but sooner or later the mask will be torn away, and the true man revealed. There are those who live double lives, who, like the characters in [Robert Louis] Stevenson's famous English novel [Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)], have the extremes of good and evil in their natures; but, for the sake of human kind in general, let us be thankful they are few and far between."
• "I have found in other churches some of the most regular Churchpeople who were living double lives. Are there any here who are living double lives, and who have not obeyed and are not obeying the authority of Jesus Christ—who are tampering with His marriage law— [...]"
• "There is no doubt I lead a very double life. I strive to do right and continually do wrong. Yet I do not do the right I do to make it a cloak for evil. The evil that I do is done unwillingly, it comes of the frailty of my nature, I am sorry for it."