Quotes about Duplicity

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!

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.

Whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.

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

Neither will it out of my mind but that that man that takes up religion for the world will throw away religion for the world; for so surely as Judas designed the world in becoming religious, so surely did he also sell religion and his Master for the same.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

When simplicity of character and the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of secondary desires, the desire of riches, of pleasure, of power, and of praise,—and duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth, the power over nature as an interpreter of the will, is in a degree lost; new imagery ceases to be created, and old words are perverted to stand for things which are not; a paper currency is employed, when there is no bullion in the vaults. In

At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

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

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.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be "consistent."