Hypocrisy Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Hypocrisy.
Top Quotes
“Saint abroad, and a devil at home.”
“Video meliora, proboque, deteriora sequor.”
“Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.”
“A on his lips and not-A in his heart.”
“O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!”
“Their mouths speak of love, but their hearts are greedy for unjust gain.”
“Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke
Should wear his cross upon the heart.”
“Be hypocritical, be cautious, be
Not what you seem but always what you see.”
“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.”
“O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?”
“He was a man
Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven
To serve the Devil in.”
“I will speak daggers to her, but use none;
My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites.”
“It is better to be despised for simplicity than to be tormented by continual hypocrisy.”
“And the veil
Spun from the cobweb fashion of the times,
To hide the feeling heart?”
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“To condemn your sin in another is hypocrisy. Not to condemn is to reserve your right to sin.”
“Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care
Is to seem everything but what they are.”
“And prate and preach about what others prove,
As if the world and they were hand and glove.”
“Away, and mock the time with fairest show;
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”