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 Quotes
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.
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
Don’t say that he’s hypocritical Say rather that he’s apolitical.
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.
He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
That vice pays homage to virtue is notorious; we call it hypocrisy.