Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. – Abraham Lincoln
Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite. – Proverb
The wicked work harder to preach hell than the righteous do to get to heaven. – Proverb
And why do you look at the speck that is in your brothers eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Matthew 7:3 – Bible
When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. – Otto von Bismarck
Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. – G. K. Chesterton
With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. – Charles Dickens
At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Clean your finger before you point at my spots. – Benjamin Franklin
Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy. – Fredrich
A favorite has no friend! – Thomas Gray
The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. – William Hazlitt
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. – Jean Kerr
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. – Bernard Mandeville
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. – W. Somerset Maugham
For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone. – John Milton
When you see a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend on it, that he keeps a very small stock of it within. – C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
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. – Leo Tolstoy
