Hypocrisy Quotes
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity
Andre Gide
One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot,like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.
W. Somerset Maugham
Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
Hosea Ballou
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.
Martin Luther
He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong
Robert Green Ingersoll
If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I never censor what others do. Neither a philospher nor a psychiatrist, I never bother trying to analyze or resolve my fears and neuroses
Federico Fellini
Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan
Abraham Lincoln
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
Tennessee Williams
The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
William Hazlitt
Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy
Lord Byron
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
Lord Byron
It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
Lord Byron
