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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
— Honore De Balzac
Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy.
— Richard B. Garnett
Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood and then mount the stump to make a speech for conservation.
— Adlai Ewing Stevenson
If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character.
— Frederick William Robertson
Recognize the malice, cunning, and hypocrisy that power produces, and the peculiar ruthlessness often shown by people from good families.
— Marcus Aurelius
The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face.
— Jeremy Hardy
Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.
— Sigmund Freud
A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's being said is the party line.
— Colin Quinn
Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.
— Mark McKinnon
If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.
— Neal Stephenson
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
— Vladimir Lenin
Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.
— Alexander Theroux
Princes give rewards with their own hands,But death or punishment by the hands of other. — John Webster
I knew then that the Christian Church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out!
— Anton Szandor LaVey
Ambition ... the original of vices;Mother of hypocrisy, parent of envy, engineer of deceit — Ernest Hemingway,
Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices.
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays
— Francis Bacon
Hypocrissist: A narcissist who has their head so far up their ass they can't hear the hypocrisy coming out of their mouth.
— Joel McDonald
The truth has become an insult.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good.
— Criss Jami
I have no time for homophobes. They need to work out why they are homophobes, the ultimate hypocrisy.
— Robert Black
We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.
— Jose Emilio Pacheco
What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.
— Margaret Deland
Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy.
— Boris Pasternak
The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.
— Gretchen Rubin
One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith ...
— Susan Sontag
Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Hypocrisy/hi pakrise/ noun
1. The moment you tell someone it is not important to be right, in order to look right to everyone else. — Shannon L. Alder
Reagan and Bush ... made the world safe for hypocrisy.
— Julia Phillips
When men lost their understanding of the Tao, intelligence came along, bringing hypocrisy with it.
— Lao-Tzu
Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.
— Lincoln Steffens
The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.
— Anatole France
Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate.
— Michael Arrington
In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently requiredacting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Of lies, false modesty is the most decent.
— Nicolas Chamfort
It's one thing to admire a man's work. It's another to get your picture in the paper doing it." General Clayton
— M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team
He who practices in Truth will ignore the hypocrisy of others.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em ...
— Erica Jong
Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment.
— Saul Bellow
Transparency is the antidote to hypocrisy.
— Britt Merrick
If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.
— Michael Kinsley
Net neutrality is a concept that the tech industry rallies around, but it is hypocrisy.
— Dave Winer
Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.
— Mason Cooley
Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil.Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil. — William Shakespeare
The intention makes the crime.
— Aristotle.
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
After I won the title, I was confronted with the real world. People do not behave naturally anymore - hypocrisy is everywhere.
— Boris Spassky
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— Charles Dickens
When the article of justification is lost, nothing remains except error, hypocrisy, godlessness, and idolatry.
— Martin Luther
College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.
— Noel Gallagher
Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet.
— Lenore Kandel
The enemy was irony and truth and hypocrisy, that was the real enemy. That was the enemy that was killing him.
— James McBride
Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.
— Shannon L. Alder
Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.
— Matt Chandler
God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?
— Georges Bernanos
Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
The devil does some of his best work behind stained glass.
— Eugene H. Peterson
It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.
— Benjamin Whichcote
Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldn't understand why, since she had very little character left to defend.
— Melika Dannese Lux
The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: It exists in spite of its ministers.
— Heinrich Heine
Let us continue to hone and hone the methods by which man hangs his fellow man and be done, once and for all, with any hypocrisy.
— Sergio De La Pava
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
— Adlai E. Stevenson II
And this hypocrisy found I worst amongst them, that even those who command feign the virtues of those who serve.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Making the world safe for hypocrisy.
— Thomas Wolfe
Self-awareness - the commendable ability to be yourself without being a nuisance to someone else.
— Criss Jami
The result always mattered more than the rhetoric.
— Jeffrey Toobin
the only way to eliminate hypocrisy from human existence is to abandon all principles whatsoever;
— Theodore Dalrymple
That is why diplomats smile: it is not hypocrisy - it is a sort of metaphysical awareness of the human impossibility of their task.
— Charles Malik
Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.
— John Calvin
Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.
— James Herbert