Quotes about hypocrisy
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. – François de La Rochefoucauld
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. – Adlai E. Stevenson II
Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach what you don’t practice. – Unknown
Hypocrisy is the disease of authority. – Edward Gibbon
Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics. – Mark McKinnon
Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. – William Shakespeare
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. – Jean de la Bruyere
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. – Edmund Burke
Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you’re moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally. – Alan Dershowitz
Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging. – Alexander Theroux
Hypocrisy is a disgusting vice. We tolerate it in one’s interest, but despise it in another. – Edgar Watson Howe
Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favorite child. – Don King
Hypocrisy is a poor tribute to virtue. – John Aylesworth
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 practised at spare moments; it is a whole-time job. – W. Somerset Maugham
Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism. – Mason Cooley
Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue. – Judith Martin
Hypocrisy is the glue that holds society together. – David Byrne
Hypocrisy is the vaseline of social intercourse. – Malcolm Muggeridge
Hypocrisy is the masterpiece of Satan’s subtlety. And laziness is the adulterous housewife whom Satan kisses for her sweetmeats, and then strangles with the cord he used to tie her to the bed. – Thomas Adams
Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry. – Charles D’Ambrosio
Hypocrisy affects our judgment of right and wrong because we mean others’ actions should conform with the principles we teach them. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Hypocrisy is the grease that keeps the wheels of the political machine running smoothly. – John McCarthy
Hypocrisy is the homage of vice to virtue. – François de La Rochefoucauld
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop. – Colley Cibber
Hypocrisy signifies the discrepancy between the character we show and the person we are. – M.J. Draughon
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
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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. – William Somerset Maugham
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. – Project Gutenberg
Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you’re moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally. – Isaac Asimov
Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics. – Mark McKinnon
Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue. – La Rochefoucauld
Hypocrisy is the essence of jest. – Bokonon
Hypocrisy is the best problem with the human. – Aashu Patel
Hypocrisy is the worst sin you can commit in the academy. It’s like selling your children while claiming to be a model parent. – Essie Summers
Hypocrisy is the oil that lubricates the wheels of our everyday social interactions. – Maureen O’Hara
Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue, as vanity is the tribute that folly pays to virtue. – François de La Rochefoucauld
Hypocrisy is a pseudo-religion; it is the mask in which vice and irreligion often masquerade. Yet who would judge a church by its abuses? What company of saints has ever existed without a Judas or two? – Sydney Smith
Hypocrisy is the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone. – John Milton
Hypocrisy is the pollution of the heart. – Muhammad Iqbal
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. – Charles Caleb Colton
Hypocrisy may deceive the cleverest man, but the least fool can detect it. – Leo Tolstoy
Hypocrisy is a natural state of the human mind. – Mark Rutherford
Hypocrisy has become an art in which the pretentious person appears unsullied. – Domenico Cieri
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. – W. Somerset Maugham
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue. – Molière
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. – Walter Scott
Hypocrisy is the compliment vice pays to virtue. – François de La Rochefoucauld
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. – Oscar Wilde