I profess not talking: only this.
Let each man do his best. [ Shakespeare ]

But as the unthought-on accident is guilty
To what we wildly do, so we profess
Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies
Of every wind that blows. [ William Shakespeare ]

In religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere. [ Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan ]

Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity. [ Trench ]

Without eyes thou shalt want light: profess not the knowledge therefore that thou hast not. [ Ecclus ]

The first degree of folly is to hold one's self wise, the second to profess it, the third to despise counsel. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

To profess one thing and to do another occurs very often, especially with those who continually boast of their virtue. [ T. Gautier ]

I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. [ Washington Irving ]

What a cruel jest it would be to condemn those who continually boast of their virtues, to the strict practice of what they profess! [ De Finod ]

Sincerity is to speak as we think, to do as we pretend and profess, to perform and make good what we promise, and really to be what we would seem and appear to be. [ Tillotson ]

How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike! [ Bishop Hall ]

To see each other, to profess to love each other, to prove it, to quarrel, to hate, then to separate, that one may seek a new love: this is the history of a moment, and of every day in the comedy of the world. [ De Varennes ]