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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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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!”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Macbeth (Macbeth at I, vii)
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“O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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?”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
William Shakespeare Quotes 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.”
Syrus (Publilius Syrus) Quotes 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),”
Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire) Quotes 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.”
Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wilde) Quotes 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.”
Edward Young Quotes 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.”
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“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.”
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“With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.”
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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.”
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