Quotes about Duplicity

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

an enemy is not more baneful than a flatterer.

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

A hateful man disguises himself with his speech, but he lays up deceit in his heart.

But Jesus saw through their duplicity and said to them,

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

We are doing one of two things when we sing to our children. We are either indulging in a cynical duplicity that is only creating the conditions for disenchantment, or we are passing on to them, as we had passed on to us, something that the human imagination has sanctioned as being in some way perennially valid.

There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.

The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.