Quotes about Duplicity

an enemy is not more baneful than a flatterer.

Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.

His speech is smooth as butter, but war is in his heart. His words are softer than oil, yet they are swords unsheathed.

We have got nowadays so that we divide lies into white lies and black lies, society lies and business lies, etc. The Word of God knows no such letting-down of the standard.

If he is not supposed to be that, then he is a hypocrite, and the higher he climbs on this path, the more dreadful a hypocrite he is.

If you take part of the truth, and try to make that part of the truth, all of the truth, then that part of the truth becomes an untruth.

are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

But Jesus saw through their duplicity and said to them,

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.

To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.

The Good is one thing; the reward is something else. To will the Good for the sake of reward is not to will one thing but two. If a man loves a woman for the sake of her wealth, who will call him a lover? To will the Good for the sake of reward is hypocrisy — sheer duplicity!