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.

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.

Seeing through is rarely seeing into.