"Hypocritic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... There as I passed, a certain aged crone, Whom I had fed, and nursed, year after year, Met me mid-stream—thrust past me stoutly on— And rolled me headlong in the freezing mire. There as I lay and weltered,—'Take that, Madam, For all your selfish hypocritic pride Which thought it such a vast humility To wash us poor folk's feet, and use our bodies For staves to build withal your Jacob's-ladder. What! you would mount to heaven upon our backs? The ass has thrown his rider.' She crept on— I washed my garments in the brook hard by— ...
— The Saint's Tragedy • Charles Kingsley
... dead, no pageant train Shall waste their sorrows at my bier, Nor worthless pomp of homage vain Stain it with hypocritic tear. ...
— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett |
