But it is difficult, I think, to see a hypocrite in a man whose intimacy you have cultivated, whose mind you have entered into, as Shakespeare entered into the mind of his creatures.

As she sat in the uncomfortable pew, Ida often wondered whether her cousin really believed what he preached, or whether he was a hypocrite of the first water.

So, I say, many deceive themselves, and are more or less hypocrites to themselves.

Emma Long was not a hypocrite at heart, but she had an almost superhuman power of acting.

They cannot see the grief of life beneath its grin; they cannot detect the scorn or the pity that is hidden in joke or banter; neither can they always find out the joke or banter that is covered by a solemn face; and many a sincere believer has been deemed an atheist because he burlesqued hypocrites with their own gravity.

On the other hand Steadfast was a hypocrite by nature, cowardly, envious, and malignant; and circumstances had only lent their aid to the natural tendencies of his disposition.

"I wouldn't be a hypocrite for all the world, and that is exactly what sham goodness amounts to; still, I don't mean to say, Miss Fairbanks, that I've always lived up to what I knew was my duty!

May sinners in Zion become afraid henceforth, and fearfulness surprise the hypocrite from this hour!

His religion is too full of curiosities to be sound and useful, and is fitter for a hypocrite than a saint; for curiosities are only for show and of no use at all.

Hence every man plays the hypocrite before the powerful; every man endeavours to force from others a present by tyranny or accusation.

How many hypocrites on my church-roll?

Perhaps if I have hypocrites around me, I have at least some honest subjects at a distance.

We are accustomed to consider the hypocrite as a hateful, despicable character, and an uncommon one.

" 5. Hypocrites like whited Sepulchres.