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

Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors. РJean Baptiste Moli̬re, Tartuffe

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one. – J. Pierpoint Morgan