~ Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue ~
~ Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy ~
~ As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth ~
~ Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste ~
~ The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of
a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. ~
~ Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion. ~
~ Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not. ~
~ Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy. ~
~ Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone. ~
~ He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves ~
~ Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty ~
~ HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises ~