An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. •G. K. Chesterton Often a noble face hides filthy ways. •Euripides The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

Better an ounce from the ground than a pound from the roof

It used to be that the highest ambition of American novelists was to write 'the Great American Novel,' that great white whale of American fiction that would encompass all the American experience in one great book.