“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”
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“Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.”
Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Reflections or Sentences and Moral Maxims
“Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.”
John Wesley
“The use of fashions in thought is to distract men from their real dangers. We direct the fashionable outcry of each generation against those vices of which it is in the least danger, and fix its approval on the virtue that is nearest the vice which we are trying to make endemic. The game is to have them all running around with fire extinguishers whenever there’s a flood; and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gone under.”
C.S. Lewis
The Screwtape Letters
“The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.”
William Hazlitt
Selected Essays, 1778-1830
“Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,And vice sometime by action dignified.”
William Shakespeare
Romeo & Juliet