William Shakespeare on Hypocrisy
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“O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?”
“I will speak daggers to her, but use none; My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites.”
“Away, and mock the time with fairest show; False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”
“So smooth he daub'd his vice with show of virtue, * * * * * * He liv'd from all attainder of suspect.”
“'Tis too much proved—that with devotion's visage And pious action we do sugar o'er The devil himself.”