Saint abroad and a devil at home.
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When the fox preaches look to your geese.
Every man is a hypocrite
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue.
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.
Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.
Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven To serve the Devil in.
Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
Hypocrite - mouth one way belly 'nother way.
Remember this: If you work for a man in Heaven's name work for him. If he pays you wages which supply you bread and butter work for him speak well of him stand by the institution he represents. If put to a pinch an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must vilify condemn and eternally disparage - resign your position and when you are on the outside damn to your heart's content but as long as you are part of the institution do not condemn it.
The teeth are smiling but is the heart?
When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out.
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy the only evil that walks invisible.
It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed or not possible to avoid making those that are required.