William Hazlitt Quotes About Hypocrisy
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There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.
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Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite
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As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
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Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
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A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
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He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.
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Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.
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The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
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Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.
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We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
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Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
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