Feigned righteousness Quotes

A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

Canting hypocrisy

Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue.

Hypocrites always wanna play innocent

Common hypocrites pass themselves off as doves; political and literary hypocrites pose as eagles. But don't be fooled by their eagle-like appearance. These are not eagles, but rats or dogs.

Where there is hypocrisy, there is hope.

Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind.

There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.

Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy.