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Hypocrisy: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
And the veil Spun from the cobweb fashion of the times, To hide the feeling heart?— AKENSIDE — Pleasures of Imagination. Bk. II. L. 147.
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.— DE LA BRUYERE — The Characters or
Manners of the Present Age. Of Men. Ch. XI. Saint abroad, and a devil at home.— BUNYAN — Pilgrim's Progress. Pt. I.
Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem but always what you see.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto XI. St. 86.
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!— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto X. St. 34.
And prate and preach about what others prove, As if the world and they were hand and glove.— COWPER — Table Talk. L. 173.
A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all actions shooting at his own praise or profit.— FULLER — The Holy and Profane States. The Hypocrite. Maxim 1. Bk. V. Ch. VIII.
An open foe may prove a curse, But a pretended friend is worse.— GAY — The Shepherd's Dog and the Wolf. yourselves another. L. 33.
Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.— GOLDSMITH — Epilogue to The Sisters. L. 25.
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. Attributed to DR. LAND by BACON- Apothegms. No. 273. But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropped manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. II. L. 112.
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.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. III. L. 682.
He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven To serve the Devil in.— POLLOK — Course of Time. Bk. VIII. L. 616.
Constant at Church and 'Change; his gains were sure; His givings rare, save farthings to the poor.— POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. III. L. 347.
Thou hast prevaricated 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.— NICHOLAS ROWE — Lady Jane Grey. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 235.
Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.— SCHILLER — The Fight with the Dragon. St. 24.
Away, and mock the time with fairest show; False face must hide what the false heart doth know.— Shakespeare — Macbeth. Act I. Sc. 7. L. 81.
God has given you one face, and you make— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 149.
I will speak daggers to her, but use none; My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites. S.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 414.
My tables, meet it is I set it down, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain; At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmark.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 5. L. 107.
O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?— Shakespeare — Romeo and Juliet. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 73.
O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side!?— Shakespeare — Measure for Measure. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 285.
So smooth he daub'd his vice with show of virtue, * * * He liv'd from all attainder of suspect.— Shakespeare — Richard III. Act III. Sc. 5. L. 29.
'Tis too much proved that with devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 47.