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And the veil
Spun from the cobweb fashion of the times,
TO hid the feeling heart?
Author: Mark Akenside
Source: Pleasure of Imagination (bk. II, l. 147)
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Saint abroad, and a devil at home.
Author: John Bunyan
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!
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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.
Author: William Cowper
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.
Author: Thomas Fuller
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.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
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.
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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.]
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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.
Author: Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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.
Author: John Milton
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.
Author: Robert Pollok
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.
Author: Alexander Pope
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.
Author: Nicholas Rowe
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.
Author: Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Source: The Fight with the Dragon (st. 24)
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Ophelia at III, i)
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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!
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at III, ii)
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Away, and mock the time with fairest show;
False face must hide what the false heart doth khow.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at I, vii)
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O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Measure for Measure (Vincentio, the Duke at III, ii)
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O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet at III, ii)
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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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (King Richard at III, v)
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It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims
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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 (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),
Author: Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
Source: A Philosophical Dictionary--Philosopher (sec. I)
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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.
Author: Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wilde)
Source: Importance of Being Earnest (act II)
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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.
Author: Edward Young
Source: Night Thoughts (night VIII, l. 336)
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An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. •G. K. Chesterton Often a noble face hides filthy ways. •Euripides The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
Author: Michael Korda
Source: None
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
Author: André Gide
Source: None
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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Source: None
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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.
Author: Bertrand Russell
Source: None
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