Hypocrisy – Zitate

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation, part of the chosen trappings of folly! the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop. Contempt is the proper punishment of affectation, and detestation the just consequence of hypocrisy.

— Samuel Johnson

When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it he keeps a very small stock of it within.

— C. H. Spurgeon

     In sermon style he bought, And sold, and lied; and salutations made In Scripture terms. He prayed by quantity, And with his repetitions long and loud,      All knees were weary.

— Pollock

  ​ Hypocrisy is a sort of homage that vice pays to virtue.

— Rochefoucauld

If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character.

— F. W. Robertson

Men turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to be dry?

— C. H. Spurgeon

Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.

— Matthew Henry

Woe unto thee if after all thy profession thou shouldst be found under the power of ignorance, lost in formality, drowned in earthly-mindedness, envenomed with malice, exalted in an opinion of thine own righteousness, leavened with hypocrisy and carnal ends in God's service.

— Joseph Alleine

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne