| 39 Hypocrisy Quotes
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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity”
Andre Gide Quotes |
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“Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion”
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes |
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“Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes |
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“When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.”
Simone de Beauvoir Quotes |
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“Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo”
Ambrose Bierce Quotes |
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“Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.”
Stendhal Quotes |
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“Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing”
Edmund Burke Quotes |
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“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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“And the veil
Spun from the cobweb fashion of the times,
TO hid the feeling heart?”
Mark Akenside Quotes Source: Pleasure of Imagination (bk. II, l. 147)
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“Saint abroad, and a devil at home.”
John Bunyan Quotes Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. I)
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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 (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto X, st. 34)
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“Be hypocritical, be cautious, be
Not what you seem but always what you see.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto XI, st. 86)
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“And prate and preach about what others prove,
As if the world and they were hand and glove.”
William Cowper Quotes Source: Table Talk (l. 173)
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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 Quotes Source: Holy and Profane States--The Hypocrite (maxim I, bk. V, ch. VIII)
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“Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care
Is to seem everything but what they are.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: Epilogue to The Sisters (l. 25)
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“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.”
Jean de la Bruyere Quotes Source: The Characters or Manners of the Present Age (ch. XI)
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“Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue.
[Fr., L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend a la vertu.]”
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Quotes Source: Maximes (218)
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“Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their
heads, were like the little images that they place in the very
bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up
the church, but are but puppets.”
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Quotes Source: Maximes (218)
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“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.”
John Milton Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 682)
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“He was a man
Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven
To serve the devil in.”
Robert Pollok Quotes Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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“Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure;
His givings rare, save farthings to the poor.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 347)
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“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.”
Nicholas Rowe Quotes Source: Lady Jane Grey (act II, sc. 1. 235)
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“Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke
Should wear his cross upon the heart.”
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Quotes Source: The Fight with the Dragon (st. 24)
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