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Tuesday 14 August 2012

Quotes on HYPOCRISY

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He blam'd and protested, but join'd in the plan ;

He shared in the plunder, but pitied the man.

                    
                                                   -COWPER, Pity for poor Africans.

 Further Quotes :
To beguile the time,
            
                    Look like the time; ....................                      .

                        .......... look like the innocent flower,

But be the serpent under't.


                                                                                   -SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth, I,5



No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures .

                                    -S.JOHNSON (Bosewell, Life for the year 1783 )




They set the sign of the cross over their outer doors, and sacrifice to their

 gut and their groin in their inner closets.

                                         -BEN JONSON,  Explorata 




Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

                                   -LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, Maxims, 218


                                                                             Source:grist.org
 

With one hand he put

A penny in the urn of poverty ,

And with the other took  a shilling out.

                    
                        
                                                               -ROBERT POLLOK, The Course of Time