Hypocrisy Quotes

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

Mahatma Gandhi

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Edmund Burke

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue

FranÁois de la Rochefoucauld

Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy

Ambrose Bierce

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

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste

George Bernard Shaw

The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

William Hazlitt

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.

Samuel Johnson

Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

John Milton

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness

Stendhal

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today

Mahatma Gandhi

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves

William Hazlitt

HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises

Ambrose Bierce

Hypocrisy is homage paid by vice to virtue.

Duc de La Rochefoucauld

All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy

Lord Byron
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