Hypocrisy Quotes
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, in solid cash, the tribute which Philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
Aldous Huxley
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Honore De Balzac
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.
Leo Tolstoy
Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind.
Joseph Addison
Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.
Edmund Burke
Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!
Lord Byron
If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.
Charles Caleb Colton
Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of the church, and numbers die of it; though because it is a subtle and inward evil, it be little perceived. It is to be feared there are many sick of it, that look well and comely in God's outward worship, and they may pass well in good weather, in times of peace; but days of adversity are days of trial.
Joseph Hall
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself, too, if he could.
William Hazlitt
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
William Hazlitt
Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite.
William Hazlitt
He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.
William Hazlitt
Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.
Victor Hugo
The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
