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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. -- Edmund Burke
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy. -- Samuel Johnson
Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy. -- Christine Keeler
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda. -- Larry Flynt
Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child. -- Don King
There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. -- Frederick William Robertson
Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy. -- Jose Marti
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy! -- Dalai Lama
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 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
Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings. -- Howard Dean
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 fatal to religion. -- Mary Baker Eddy
Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo. -- Ambrose Bierce
Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state. -- Anton Chekhov
Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy. -- Mo Rocca
Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism. -- Mason Cooley
Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics. -- Mark McKinnon
Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame. -- Norm MacDonald
Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used. -- George Bernard Shaw
Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion. -- Hosea Ballou
Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness. -- Victor Hugo
Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. -- Grover Norquist
Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue. -- Judith Martin
Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch. -- Joseph Goebbels
Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion -- Mahatma Gandhi
Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together. -- Scott Meyer
Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy. -- Richard B. Garnett
Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption. -- Wes Fesler
Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty. -- Raisa Gorbacheva
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue. -- Moliere
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice . -- Albert Pike
Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place. -- Alan Dershowitz
Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging. -- Alexander Theroux
Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together. -- Edmund Burke
Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict. -- John Calvin
Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right. -- Penn Jillette
Hypocrisy a homage is true, That vice pays to virtue, Be man - himself so true, That no false does he brew. -- Munindra Misra
The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent. -- George Bernard Shaw
Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda. -- Peter Kreeft
Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise! -- Lord Byron
Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work. -- Pablo Antonio Cuadra
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. -- Samuel Johnson
No human is perfect; we all have our hidden sins. Hypocrisy is to delude yourself into denying your own sins and allow arrogance to grow within you. -- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not. -- Lord David Cecil
Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness. -- Orson Scott Card
I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words. -- Henri Nouwen
Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly. -- Samuel Johnson
Hypocrisy is our friend. Power structures have to pretend to hold values in order to win the loyalty of at least some of society. We can use the gap between those professed values and reality to move people to try to change the reality towards the values. -- Justin Podur
Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy. -- Benjamin Disraeli
There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground. -- Richard Pryor
The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. -- Jane Addams
We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. -- Thomas Fuller
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite! -- Tennessee Williams
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. -- William Hazlitt
When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy. -- Barry White
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. -- Andre Gide
For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone. -- John Milton
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition. -- Fidel Castro
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. -- Jean Kerr
Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite. -- Benjamin Carson
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde
A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could. -- William Hazlitt
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
Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. -- Hannah Arendt
The hypocrisy of some is that we like to think of ourselves as sophisticated and evolved, but we're still also driven by primal urges like greed and power. -- Michael Leunig
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work. -- Jack Nicklaus
The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life. -- Al Franken
Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy. -- Malcolm X
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul. -- Victoria Woodhull
Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths. -- Radhanath Swami
We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy. -- Evgeny Morozov
I returned to India because I believe in an India of honesty and hard work, not of corruption and crookedness. I believe in an India of openness and straightforwardness, not of hypocrisy and double-dealing. I believe in an India where opportunities are available to all, and not just to a chosen few. -- Shashi Tharoor
We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only. -- Oriana Fallaci
For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see. -- Robin Williams
If we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree -- as we temporarily did during the McCarthy period -- we weaken our commitment to the rule of law... So beware of an approach which limits advocacy to that which is approved by the standards of political correctness. -- Alan Dershowitz
When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal. -- Steven Pinker
I abhor hypocrisy. -- Don Lemon
Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence. -- Toba Beta
Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation. -- Iskander Mirza
Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy. -- Charles Spurgeon
Making the world safe for hypocrisy. -- Thomas Wolfe
Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art. -- Mason Cooley
Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians. -- James Herbert
This is an example of hypocrisy -- Miuccia Prada
There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen. -- Ethel Waters
Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy. -- Ambrose Bierce
My hypocrisy only goes so far. -- Doc Holliday
I do not believe in hypocrisy. -- Vijay Mallya
I don't like hypocrisy-even in international relations. -- Kofi Abrefa Busia
When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy. -- Laozi
Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy. -- Honore de Balzac
How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself. -- Victor Hugo
Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy. -- Remy de Gourmont
Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy -- Christine Keeler
Where there is hypocrisy, there is hope. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. -- Honore de Balzac
There is so much hypocrisy in sports. -- Dennis Rodman
Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy. -- Henry Ward Beecher
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It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds. -- Doc Holliday
No task is more difficult than systematic hypocrisy. -- Edward George, Baron George
Alexia abhorred hypocrisy, especially when munitions were involved. -- Gail Carriger
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness. -- Stendhal
Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy. -- Criss Jami
Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste. -- George Bernard Shaw
Reagan and Bush... made the world safe for hypocrisy. -- Julia Phillips
I try to photograph my own and society's hypocrisy. -- Martin Parr
When you are in love' hypocrisy won over principle. -- Lisa Kleypas
The truth is, the hypocrisy of humans is everywhere -- Jeremy Griffith
Thats called hypocrisy, you shuck face piece of -! -- James Dashner

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