13 Metaphors for hypocrisies

You have twice or thrice observed in your Discourse, that Hypocrisy is the very Foundation of our Education; and that an Ability to dissemble our affections, is a professed Part of our Breeding.

This, for instance, is the sort of way in which a sermon would begin: Hypocrisy is a serious word.

" "Hypocrisy, Vad, is the meanest thing on earth!

Hypocrisy, in its ordinary forms, is a superficial thinga skin disease, not a cancer.

Universal hypocrisy would be the consequence of ballot.

Hypocrisy is the cover of his counterfeit religion, and traitorous invention is the agent of his ambition.

It was resolved that I should either resume attendance at the Communion, or should not return home; hypocrisy or expulsionsuch was the alternative; I chose the latter.

May our hypocrisy with each other be a virtue?

The most famous of them all is the saying that "Hypocrisy is a sort of Homage which Vice pays to Virtue," but there are others that fly from mouth to mouth, and treat more definitely of self-love.

Hypocrisy is the perpetual butt of his arrows. "Let us draw the cowl through the brook of wine.

She saw that selfishness was the metal which the stamp of heart was suborned to pass; that hypocrisy was the homage that vice rendered to virtue; that honesty was, at all events, acted, because it was the best policy; and so she practised the arts of selfishness and hypocrisy like anybody else in Vanity Fair, only with this difference, that she brought them to their highest possible pitch of perfection.

"Oh, my brethren, this hypocrisy is the curse and danger of our age.

Outside England, not only among our enemies, but among our friends and allies, it is agreed that hypocrisy is our national vice, our ruling passion.

13 Metaphors for  hypocrisies