Few people practise what they preach, and no one less so than Mr. Bernard Shaw. Few are more capable of having the best of everything both ways… His dissolvent theories of life and society have been sturdily banished from his personal conduct and his home. No one has ever led a more respectable life or […]
Hypocrisy Quotes
Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society.
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. And oft though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom’s Gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery; at first it deceives, at last it betrays.
A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.
Great hypocrite are the real atheists.
Seeing through is rarely seeing into.
Mesmerism, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.
Politeness: the most acceptable hypocrisy.
Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.
