<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Hypocrisy - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64703]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are oft to blame in this, 'Tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage  And pious action we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20233]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none.  My tongue and soul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20234]]></link><description><![CDATA[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!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Away, and mock the time with fairest show; False face must hide what the false heart doth khow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Away, and mock the time with fairest show; False face must hide what the false heart doth khow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20236]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20237]]></link><description><![CDATA[O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So smooth he daubed his vice with show of virtue That, his apparent open guilt omitted--  I mean, his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20238]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20239]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20240]]></link><description><![CDATA[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),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20241]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20242]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda   We ought to see far enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20243]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda   We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. •G. K. Chesterton  Often a noble face hides filthy ways. •Euripides  The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20245]]></link><description><![CDATA[With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20246]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven  To serve the devil in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20229]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven  To serve the devil in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure; His givings rare, save farthings to the poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure; His givings rare, save farthings to the poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast prevariated with thy friend, By underhand contrivances undone me:  And while my open nature trusted in thee, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast prevariated with thy friend, By underhand contrivances undone me:  And while my open nature trusted in thee,   Thou hast stept in between me and my hopes,    And ravish'd from me all my soul held dear.     Thou hast betray'd me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20213]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the veil Spun from the cobweb fashion of the times,  TO hid the feeling heart? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20218]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the veil Spun from the cobweb fashion of the times,  TO hid the feeling heart?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saint abroad, and a devil at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saint abroad, and a devil at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn  Loud as the virtues thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn  Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt,   Not practise!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem but always what you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem but always what you see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And prate and preach about what others prove, As if the world and they were hand and glove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20222]]></link><description><![CDATA[And prate and preach about what others prove, As if the world and they were hand and glove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all actions shooting at his own praise or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20223]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all actions shooting at his own praise or profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20225]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue. [Fr., L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend a la ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue. [Fr., L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend a la vertu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks  Invisible, except to God alone,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20228]]></link><description><![CDATA[For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks  Invisible, except to God alone,   By his permissive will, through heav'n and earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20209]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20210]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20212]]></link><description><![CDATA[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]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16432</guid></item></channel></rss>