Hypocrisy

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

• Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation, part of the chosen trappings of folly! the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop. Contempt is the proper punishment of affectation, and detestation the just consequence of hypocrisy.
  • Samuel Johnson, p. 335.

• When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.
  • Charles Spurgeon, p. 335.

• In sermon style he bought,
  And sold, and lied; and salutations made
  In Scripture terms. He prayed by quantity,
  And with his repetitions long and loud,
  All knees were weary.
  • Robert Pollock, p. 335.

• Hypocrisy is a sort of homage that vice pays to virtue.
  • François de La Rochefoucauld, p. 336.

• If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character.
  • Frederick William Robertson, p. 336.

• Men turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to be dry?
  • Charles Spurgeon, p. 336.

• Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.
  • Matthew Henry, p. 336.

• Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in earthly-mindedness, envenomed with malice, exalted in an opinion of thine own righteousness, leavened with hypocrisy and carnal ends in God's service.
  • Joseph Alleine, p. 336.

• No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne, p. 336.

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• It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds.
  • Doctor John Holliday, from the 1993 movie Tombstone(movie)

• "Do as I say, not as I do." - Anonymous
  • Quoted by, among others, Genesis's Jesus He Knows Me

• "Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised" - Tolstoy

• "The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy." - William Hazlitt

• "A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy." - Benjamin Disraeli

• "Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy." - Edwin Hubbel Chapin

• "Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue." - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

• "Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation." - Honore De Balzac

• "Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging." - Martin Luther
  • var: "Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging." - Martin Luther
• "Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society." - David Hull

• "At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • var: "Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "We are all hypocrites. It is in our very nature to be so. So much so that even our protestation of hypocrisy is, in itself, patently hypocritical." - Claire Worthington

• "Now you welcome me to a town called hypocrisy."- Ian Watkins, LostProphets, A Town Called Hypocrisy.

• "Please take me out of my body, up through the palm trees to smell California and sweet hypocrisy."- Max Beamis. Say Anything, Woe.

• "The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, and walk out the door, then deny him by their lifestyle." -War of Ages