Quotes of Hypocrisy - somelinesforyou

“ For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone. ”

- John Milton

“ 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

“ 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

“ Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite. ”

- Voltaire

“ The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. ”

- William Hazlitt

“ 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

“ Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy. ”

- Peter Wastholm

“ Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Making the world safe for hypocrisy. ”

- Thomas Wolfe

“ Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy. ”

- Unknown

“ Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. ”

- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“ Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who… hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit. ”

- Geoffrey B. Wilson

“ Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging. ”

- Martin Luther

“ 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

“ With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several. ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ 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

“ Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem but always what you see. ”

- Lord Byron

“ A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all actions shooting at his own praise or profit. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven To serve the devil in. ”

- Robert Pollok

“ Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure; His givings rare, save farthings to the poor. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Away, and mock the time with fairest show; False face must hide what the false heart doth khow. ”

- William Shakespeare
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