Hypocrisy Quotes

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. View quote
William Hazlitt
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy. View quote
José Martí
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue. View quote
Molière
The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments it is a whole-time job. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. (Edmund Burke)
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. View quote
Oscar Wilde
There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging. View quote
Martin Luther
When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy. View quote
Barry White
Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy. View quote
Christine Keeler
Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't. View quote
Elizabeth Wurtzel
Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition. View quote
Fidel Castro
Objectivity does not exist. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only. View quote
Oriana Fallaci
When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realized that this is what the adult world is like – full of cruelty and hypocrisy. (Vivienne Westwood)
In a good cause hypocrisy becomes a virtue. View quote
Gore Vidal
The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parent's first duty. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness. View quote
Orson Scott Card