Hypocrisy Quotes

May the man be dammed and never grow fat, who wears two faces under one hat.

Before thou reprehend another, take heed thou are not culpable in what thou goest about to reprehend. He that cleanses a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater blur.

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

Prudery is the hypocrisy of modesty.

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.