“ How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
- 213
“ Then sought they for Jesus, and spake among themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the feast? / Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a commandment, that, if any man knew where he were, he should shew it, that they might take him. ”
- Bible- Copy
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“ They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
- 597
“ The prohibition law, written for weaklings and derelicts, has divided the nation, like Gaul, into three parts — wets, drys, and hypocrites. ”
- Florence Sabin- Copy
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“ It's silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites, poltroons. ”
- Henry Miller- 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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“ A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 562
“ In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. ”
- Luis Bunuel- Copy
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“ Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting! ”
- Laurence Sterne- Copy
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“ Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. ”
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon- Copy
- 431
“ The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it. ”
- Minna Thomas Antrim- Copy
- 110
“ The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite! ”
- Tennessee Williams- 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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“ There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others, those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation, which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and talk much of free grace; but at the same time make righteousness of their discoveries, and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them. ”
- Jonathan Edwards- Copy
- 396
“ Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward. But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
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