Hypocrisy Quotes
(1 - 10 of 39)We are oft to blame in this,
'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage
And pious more
We are oft to blame in this,
'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage
And pious action we do sugar o'er
The devil himself.
Let me be cruel, not unnatural;
I will speak daggers to her, but use none.
My tongue more
Let me be cruel, not unnatural;
I will speak daggers to her, but use none.
My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites:
How in my words somever she be shent,
To give them seals never, my soul, consent!
Away, and mock the time with fairest show;
False face must hide what the false heart doth khow.
Away, and mock the time with fairest show;
False face must hide what the false heart doth khow.
O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!
O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!
O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue
That, his apparent open guilt omitted--
I more
So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue
That, his apparent open guilt omitted--
I mean, his conversation with Shore's wife--
He lived from all attainder of suspects.
It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.
It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.
How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how
horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant more
How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how
horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.
- Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be
wicked and being really good all more
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be
wicked and being really good all the time. That would be
hypocrisy.
A man I knew who lived upon a smile,
And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair,
more
A man I knew who lived upon a smile,
And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair,
While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.
