Charles Dickens Quotes

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

False modesty can be worse than arrogance.

Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.

The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

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.

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and tlak much of free grace, but at the same time make a righteousness of their discoveries and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them.

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.

Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn't quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?

Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.

Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.

Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.

Modesty is only arrogance by stealth.

Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

It was then that I realized that while playing the well-meaning tolerant individual (in short: liberal) garnered you fans and grades, it didn't matter. In my heart and head, I was a fraud.

I've learned that it's harder to try to put on this goody two-shoes persona when that's not me.

He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack. Our daily bread. The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as excessively devout, usurers as benefactors, the small-minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant and the feeble-minded as intellectual.

I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.

A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility.

He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.

Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service.