| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | Constant at Church and 'Change, his gains were sure, His givings rare, save farthings to the poor. |
| Arthur Schopenhauer | With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. |
| Bertrand Russell | We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach. |
| Alexander Pope | Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure; His givings rare, save farthings to the poor. |
| Edward Young | A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein. |
| Jean de la Bruyere | When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face. |
| John Bunyan | Saint abroad, and a devil at home. |
| Mark Akenside | And the veil Spun from the cobweb fashion of the times, TO hid the feeling heart? |
| Nicholas Rowe | Thou hast prevariated with thy friend, By underhand contrivances undone me: And while my open nature trusted in thee, Thou hast stept in between me and my hopes, And ravish'd from me all my soul held dear. Thou hast betray'd me. |
| Robert Pollok | He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven To serve the devil in. |
| John Milton | For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heav'n and earth. |
| Thomas Fuller | A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all actions shooting at his own praise or profit. |
| William Shakespeare | We are oft to blame in this, 'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself. |
| William Shakespeare | 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 | Away, and mock the time with fairest show, False face must hide what the false heart doth khow. |
| William Shakespeare | O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side! |
| William Shakespeare | O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? |
| William Shakespeare | So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue That, his apparent open guilt omitted-- I mean, his conversation with Shore's wife-- He lived from all attainder of suspects. |
| William Cowper | And prate and preach about what others prove, As if the world and they were hand and glove. |
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