It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world.

Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.

In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtues.

The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.

With devotions visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself.

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.