Samuel Johnson Quotes About Hypocrisy

• Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

  Samuel Johnson

  Education, Honesty, Integrity

  'Rasselas' (1759) ch. 41

• 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).

• 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

• 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

• On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Character, Hypocrite

• 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

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