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Samuel Johnson Quotes about Hypocrisy

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No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

Samuel Johnson
Hypocrite, Men, Hypocrisy
In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 4, p. 316 (June 1784).

Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly.

Samuel Johnson
Art, Hypocrisy, Safety
Samuel Johnson (1819). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous”, p.23

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.

Samuel Johnson
Hypocrisy, Burden, Villainy
Samuel Johnson (1798). “The Rambler: By Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.108

It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world.

Samuel Johnson
Reality, Differences, Hypocrisy
Samuel Johnson (1968). “Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.286, Yale University Press

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

Samuel Johnson
Hypocrisy, Villain, Burden
Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.145

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