Tartuffery

Every nation has its own "Tartuffery," and calls that its virtue.

Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

It is to be hoped, indeed, that LANGUAGE, here as elsewhere, will not get over its awkwardness, and that it will continue to talk of opposites where there are only degrees and many refinements of gradation; it is equally to be hoped that the incarnated Tartuffery of morals, which now belongs to our unconquerable "flesh and blood," will turn the words round in the mouths of us discerning ones.

Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

The spectacle of the Tartuffery of old Kant, equally stiff and decent, with which he entices us into the dialectic by-ways that lead (more correctly mislead) to his "categorical imperative" -- makes us fastidious ones smile, we who find no small amusement in spying out the subtle tricks of old moralists and ethical preachers.

Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

Mr. Stead's unworthy clap-trap representing London as the head-quarters of kidnapping, hocussing, and child-prostitution, the author invoking the while with true Pharisaic righteousness, unclean and blatant, pure intentions and holy zeal for good works was welcomed with a shout of delight by our unfriends the French, who hold virtue in England to be mostly Tartuffery, and by our cousins-german and rivals the Germans, who dearly love to use us and roundly abuse us.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Out upon you, Priests of Beelzebub and Moloch; of Tartuffery, Mammon, and the

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838