If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners – let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
Hypocrisy Quotes
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity.
In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.
There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are 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, […]
It is no fault of Christianity if a hypocrite falls into sin.
Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
Be not too hasty to trust, or to admire, the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit: but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world; we do not so often endeavour or wish to impose on others as on ourselves; we resolve to do right, […]
