That vice pays homage to virtue is notorious; we call it hypocrisy.
Hypocrisy Quotes
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life’s unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
Don’t stay away from church because there are so many hypocrites. There’s always room for one more.
In fact, of course, hypocrisy boomed under the Bolsheviks, like hyper inflation. I do not intend it as a witticsm when I say that hypocrisy became the life and soul of the party – indeed this understates the case. Hypocrisy didn’t know what had hit it in October 1917. Until then, hypocrisy had had its […]
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite’s crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices […]
In nine times out of ten a women had better show more affection than she feels.
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery; at first it deceives, at last it betrays.
A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.
Great hypocrite are the real atheists.
