“ Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none. My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites: How in my words somever she be shent, To give them seals never, my soul, consent! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate. They too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color. ”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- Copy
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“ I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise! ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy. ”
- Peter Wastholm- Copy
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“ Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
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“ Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who… hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit. ”
- Geoffrey B. Wilson- Copy
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“ Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging. ”
- Martin Luther- Copy
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“ There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
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“ There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. ”
- Rainer Maria Rilke- Copy
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“ Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer. ”
- Elizabeth Wurtzel- Copy
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“ Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem but always what you see. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all actions shooting at his own praise or profit. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
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“ He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven To serve the devil in. ”
- Robert Pollok- Copy
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“ Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure; His givings rare, save farthings to the poor. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ Away, and mock the time with fairest show; False face must hide what the false heart doth khow. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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