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Hypocrisy: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Now step I forth to whip hypocrisy.— L. L. iv. 3

A huge translation of hypocrisy.— L. L. v. 2.

Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes, And with a virtuous visor hide deep vice!— R. III. ii. 2.

A knave very voluble; no further conscionable, than in putting on the mere form of civil and humane seeming.— 0. ii. 1.

Knavery cannot, sure, hide itself in such reverence.— M. A. ii. 3.

O Buckingham, beware of yonder dog; Look, when he fawns, he bites; and, when he bites, His venom tooth will rankle to the death; Have not to do with him, beware of him; Sin, death, and hell have set their marks on him; And all their ministers attend on him.— R. III. i. 3.

Show men dutiful? Why, so didst thou: or seem they grave and learned? Why, so didst thou: come they of noble family? Why, so didst thou: seem they religious? Why, so didst thou: or are they spare in diet, Free from gross passion, or of mirth, or anger; Constant in spirit, not swerving with the blood; Garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment; Not working with the eye, without the ear, And, but in purged judgment, trusting neither? Such, and so finely bolted, didst thou seem.— H. V. ii. 2

Seems he a dove? his feathers are but borrow'd, For he's disposed as the hateful raven. Is he a lamb? his skin is surely lent him, For he's inclin'd as are the ravenous wolves. Who cannot steal a shape, that means deceit? Take heed my lord; the welfare of us all Hangs on the cutting short that fraudful man.— H.VI. P. 11. iii.

Tut, I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; Speak, and look back, and pry on every side, Tremble and start at wagging of a straw, Intending deep suspicion: ghastly looks Are at my service, like enforced smiles; And both are ready in their offices,— R. III. iii. 5

At any time, to grace my stratagems. Be not you spoke with, but by mighty suit: And look you get a prayer-book in your hand, And stand between two churchmen, good my lord; For on that ground I'll make a holy descant: And be not easily won to our requests; Play the maid's part, still answer nay, and take it.— R. III. iii. 7.

There is no vice so simple, but assumes— M. V. iii. 2.

Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. This outward-sainted deputy,- Whose settled visage and deliberate word Nips youth i' the head, and follies doth enmew, As falcon doth the fowl, -is yet a devil.— M. M. iii. 1.

Gloster's show Beguiles him, as the mournful crocodile With sorrow snares relenting passengers; Or as the snake, roll'd in a flowering bank, With shining checker'd slough, doth sting a child, That, for the beauty, thinks it excellent.— H.VI. PT. II. iii. 1

Smooth runs the water, where the brook is deep; And in his simple show he harbours treason. The fox barks not, when he would steal the lamb. No, no, my sovereign; Gloster is a man Unsounded yet, and full of deep deceit.— H. VI. PT. II. iii. 1.

So smooth he daub'd his vice with show of virtue, That, his apparent open guilt omitted- He liv'd from all attainder of suspect.— R. III, iii. 5

Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shapes, And with a virtuous visor hide deep vice!— R. III. ii. 2

O, what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal!— M. A. iv. 1

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ; And seem a saint when most I play the devil. R. III. i. 3 The secret mischief that I set abroach,— R. III. i. 3.

I lay unto the grievous charge of others. I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl.— R. III. i. 3

Your great goodness, out of holy pity,— H. VIII. iii. 2

Absolv'd him with an axe.— I & I.

Jacks In Office

The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me.— K. L. iii. 6.

Jargon

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.— L. L. v. 1