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~ Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue. ~

~ 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. ~

Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

~ 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. ~

John Milton

~ How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite. ~

Voltaire

~ 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. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ 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. ~

Michael Korda

~ Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty. ~

Raisa Gorbachev

~ The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. ~

André Gide

~ There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of can't and hypocrisy ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Umbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the individual who carries them. May it not be said of the bearers of these inappropriate umbrellas, that they go about the streets 'with a lie in their right hand?' Except in a very few cases of hypocrisy joined to a powerful intellect, men, not by nature, umbrellarians, have tried again and again to become so by art, and yet have failed, have expended their patrimony in the purchase of umbrella after umbrella, and yet have systematically lost them, and have finally, with contrite spirits and shrunken purses, given up their vain struggle, and relied on theft and borrowing for the remainder of their lives. ~

Robert Louis Stevenson

~ If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, in solid cash, the tribute which Philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. ~

Aldous Huxley

~ Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. ~

Honore De Balzac

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