False Pretense Quotes

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.

The smile with the knife under the cloak.

If no one figures out you are pretending to be retarded, your life will be greeted with treasure.

Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence.

To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.

What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?

My father got to see the first 10 years of my career. He implored me to always appreciate people who are not operating under any sort of false pretense or who weren't caught up in their own success.

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.

Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.

The world is nothing but a big gimmick.

Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.

Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.

Anyone who claims to have an entirely clear conscience is almost certainly a bore.

As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

two things do me in: one's chocolate cake, the other's hypocrisy.

Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.