It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit: but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world; we do not so often endeavour or wish to impose on others as on ourselves; we resolve to do right, […]
Hypocrisy Quotes
Clean your finger before you point at my spots.
Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.
What’s wrong with gossip? We all live on it, but we deny it; we’re hypocrites.
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite.
Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn’t, they couldn’t endure.
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
