5 Charles Dickens Quotes on Hypocrisy

Charles Dickens quotes on hypocrisy

3. Wherever religion is resorted to as a strong drink, and as an escape from the dull, monotonous round of home, those of its ministers who pepper the highest will be the surest to please. They who strew the Eternal Path with the greatest amount of brimstone, and who most ruthlessly tread down the flowers and leaves that grow by the wayside, will be voted the most righteous; and they who enlarge with the greatest pertinacity on the difficulty of getting into heaven will be considered, by all true believers, certain of going there: though it would be hard to say by what process of reasoning this conclusion is arrived at.

31. Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

64. With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

104. Mr. Chadband is a large yellow man, with a fat smile, and a general appearance of having a good deal of train oil in his system.

124. Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than the dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by religion.