Every man is a hypocrite. [ Frederick IV ]
Hypocrisy is permanent treason.
Saint abroad, and a devil at home. [ Bunyan ]
Sin is not so sinful as hypocrisy. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]
Prudery is the hypocrisy of modesty. [ Massias ]
Trust not in him that seems a saint. [ Fuller ]
Simpering is but a lay-hypocrisy:
Give it a corner and the clue undoes. [ George Herbert ]
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures. [ Johnson ]
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy. [ Johnson ]
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
No task is more difficult than systematic hypocrisy. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]
Servility is to devotion what hypocrisy is to virtue. [ E. de Girardin ]
Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion. [ Hosea Ballou ]
Fanaticism is to religion what hypocrisy is to virtue. [ Palissot ]
Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery. [ Matthew Henry ]
Hypocrisy is the ready homage that vice pays to virtue. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Hypocrisy is a sort of homage that vice pays to virtue. [ Proverb ]
Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness. [ Victor Hugo ]
Hypocrisy becomes a necessity for those who live scandalously. [ De Finod ]
Oh, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side! [ William Shakespeare ]
If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has. [ Colton ]
Hypocrisy has become a fashionable vice, and every fashionable vice passes for a virtue. [ Moliere ]
There is in hypocrisy as much folly as vice: it is as easy to be honest as to appear so. [ Mme. de Stael ]
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy in religion - a form of knowledge without the power of it. [ Addison ]
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery; at first it deceives, at last it betrays. [ Bacon ]
Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy. He does not like to hear the truth, and he shuns telling it. [ Pascal ]
Hypocrisy of manners, a vice peculiar to modern nations, has contributed more than one thinks to destroy that energy of character which distinguished the nations of antiquity. [ Condorcet ]
I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them - with a deep, living, godlike hatred. [ F. W. Robertson ]
Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. The charlatan is verbose and assumptive; the Pharisee is ostentatious, because he is a hypocrite. Pride is the master sin of the Devil; and the Devil is the father of lies. [ Chapin ]
Nowadays enthusiasm is accounted folly; truth, cynicism; dissimulation, self-control; stiffness of manners, dignity; deception, cleverness; hypocrisy, decency; selfishness, economy; freedom of thought, effrontery; and superstition, the prop of human morals. What progress in language!