Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient if practiced upon another and in a little different way to send him to the State prison.
—Christian Nestell Bovee
Showing posts with label hypocrisy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hypocrisy. Show all posts
Sunday, December 26, 2021
Post #3104
Monday, November 03, 2014
Post #1676
Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.
—Rev. Richard Cecil
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Post #1629
Hypocrisy is a sort of homage that vice pays to virtue.
—François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
—François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Post #904
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practised at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.
—W. Somerset Maugham
—W. Somerset Maugham
A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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