Hypocrisy Quotes

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat.

They (actors) are the only honest hypocrites. Their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness. The height of their ambition is to be beside themselves. Today kings, tomorrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing. Made up of mimic laughter and tears, passing from the extremes of joy or […]

A forced faith is a hypocrisy hateful to God and man.

But here I say the Turks were much mistaken – Who, hating hogs, yet wished to save their bacon.

Many kiss the hand they wish cut off.

A hypocrite is a person who – but who isn’t?

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another.

(Harding:)… he has the courage of his hypocrisies.

Few people practise what they preach, and no one less so than Mr. Bernard Shaw. Few are more capable of having the best of everything both ways… His dissolvent theories of life and society have been sturdily banished from his personal conduct and his home. No one has ever led a more respectable life or […]