Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Hypocrisy
You that would sell no man mustard to his beef on the Sabbath, and yet sold hypocrisy all your lifetime.
Beaumont and Fletcher.—Love’s Cure, Act II. Scene 1.
Hypocrisy is a sort of homage that vice pays to virtue.
Fuller.—Rochefoucauld.—See Ramage’s Thoughts from the French, Page 286.
Hypocrisy with smiling grace,
And Impudence with brazen face.
Ed. Moore.—Trial of Selim.