hypocrisy quotes

A Conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  Speech, House of Commons,17 Mar.

College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.

-Gallagher, Noel
  Farewell to Sport.

L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend a'   la vertu. Hypocrisy is a tribute which vice pays to virtue.

-La Rochefoucauld, Fran c° ois, 6th Duc de
  Maximes, no.218.

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any mancanpursue; it needs anunceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit.It cannot, like adulteryor gluttony, be practised at spare moments; it is a whole- time job.

-Maugham,W(illiam) Somerset
  Cakes and  Ale, ch.1.

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,John
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.681^4.

Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy.

-Pasternak, Boris
  Doctor Zhivago.

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.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
  Said by Cecily.The Importance of Being Earnest, act 2.

'Where they got you stationed now, Luke?'† 'At the p-p-p-present time in Norfolk at the Navy base,' Luke answered,'m-m-making the world safe for hypocrisy.'

-Wolfe,Thomas Clayton
  Look Homeward, Angel, pt.3, ch.36.

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