“ Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world — though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst — the cant of criticism is the most tormenting! ”
- Laurence Sterne- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none. My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites: How in my words somever she be shent, To give them seals never, my soul, consent! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 3.7K
“ A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. ”
- William Shenstone- Copy
- 3K
“ How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender. ”
- Philip Guedalla- Copy
- 244
“ Don't try to buy at the bottom and sell at the top. This can't be done, except by liars. ”
- Bernard Baruch- Copy
- 2K
“ He who does not bellow out the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers. ”
- Charles Peguy- Copy
- 647
“ A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 3K
“ The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath. ”
- Oscar Levant- Copy
- 3.9K
“ It is always the best policy to speak the truth — unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. ”
- Jerome K. Jerome- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The more gross the fraud, the more glibly will it go down and the more greedily will it be swallowed, since folly will always find faith wherever imposters will find impudence. ”
- Christian Nestell Bovee- Copy
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“ A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all actions shooting at his own praise or profit. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
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“ To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure. ”
- Nathaniel Branden- Copy
- 224
“ When you get through all the phony tinsel of Hollywood, you find the genuine tinsel underneath. ”
- Fred Allen- Copy
- 1.5K
“ The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it. ”
- Minna Thomas Antrim- Copy
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“ You can best reward a liar by believing nothing of what he says. ”
- Aristippus- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit. ”
- Edward Young- Copy
- 276
“ God is not a deceiver, that he should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us. ”
- St. Augustine- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
- 949
“ Doubt that the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move, doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 640
“ Search then the ruling passion; there alone, The wild are constant, and the cunning known; The fool consistent, and the false sincere; Priests, princes, women, no dissemblers here. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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