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Morality is what the queen expects from the hive, not from herself. — Marty Rubin

Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces. — Raheel Farooq

I reject any pretence at kindness you have the hypocrisy to offer. — Emily Bronte

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. — Honore De Balzac

Religious dogma creates a perfect fertilizer for the weeds of hypocrisy. — Steve Maraboli

Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy. — Richard B. Garnett

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood and then mount the stump to make a speech for conservation. — Adlai Ewing Stevenson

You deplore what I did, but you still want to know the results of my research. — Orson Scott Card

If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character. — Frederick William Robertson

Recognize the malice, cunning, and hypocrisy that power produces, and the peculiar ruthlessness often shown by people from good families. — Marcus Aurelius

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them. — Aristophanes

No. There had been nothing more. Through vanity he had spared her. In hypocrisy he had worn the mask of goodness. For curiosity's — Oscar Wilde

The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face. — Jeremy Hardy

Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know. — Sigmund Freud

A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's being said is the party line. — Colin Quinn

We must take the long view - every defeat is a victory in a war of attrition. — Nathanael West

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics. — Mark McKinnon

If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy. — Neal Stephenson

Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness. — Vladimir Lenin

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging. — Alexander Theroux

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

Princes give rewards with their own hands,
But death or punishment by the hands of other. — John Webster

I knew then that the Christian Church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out! — Anton Szandor LaVey

Ambition ... the original of vices;
Mother of hypocrisy, parent of envy, engineer of deceit — Ernest Hemingway,

Progress is the hypocrisy which refines the vices. — Joris-Karl Huysmans

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays — Francis Bacon

Hypocrissist: A narcissist who has their head so far up their ass they can't hear the hypocrisy coming out of their mouth. — Joel McDonald

The truth has become an insult. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The pride of man hopes but to blame God for the evils of the world, and to praise himself for the good. — Criss Jami

I have no time for homophobes. They need to work out why they are homophobes, the ultimate hypocrisy. — Robert Black

We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others. — Jose Emilio Pacheco

Hypocrisy is the homage freedom pays to social convention. — Marty Rubin

What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own. — Margaret Deland

Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. — Boris Pasternak

Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors. — Moliere

The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Nothing short of the end of the world would get our eco-conscious techies to toss their latest gadgets onto the street. — Susan Ee

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense. — Gretchen Rubin

One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith ... — Susan Sontag

Yes, Bush spouted a bunch of religious crap, but at least he didn't believe in it.
Give the man a beer. Sometimes hypocrisy is better than faith. — Earl Lee

Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy. — Henry Ward Beecher

Hypocrisy
/hi pakrise/ noun
1. The moment you tell someone it is not important to be right, in order to look right to everyone else. — Shannon L. Alder

We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap. — Ilka Chase

False conversions are a wart on the face of Christian evangelism. — Kevin Roose

Reagan and Bush ... made the world safe for hypocrisy. — Julia Phillips

When men lost their understanding of the Tao, intelligence came along, bringing hypocrisy with it. — Lao-Tzu

Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood. — Mignon McLaughlin

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure. — Lincoln Steffens

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality. — Oswald Chambers

Fear puts an end to openness of manner; fear leads to concealment; fear sows the seed of much hypocrisy, and leads to many a lie. — J.C. Ryle

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts. — Anatole France

Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate. — Michael Arrington

Two things do me in: one's chocolate cake, the other's hypocrisy. — Roseanne Barr

The lamb misused breeds public strife
And yet forgives the butcher's knife. — William Blake

In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required
acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Of lies, false modesty is the most decent. — Nicolas Chamfort

It's one thing to admire a man's work. It's another to get your picture in the paper doing it." General Clayton — M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

He who practices in Truth will ignore the hypocrisy of others. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em ... — Erica Jong

Many common lies and hypocrisies are like that, just out of the harmony of the moment. — Saul Bellow

Transparency is the antidote to hypocrisy. — Britt Merrick

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself. — Michael Kinsley

Net neutrality is a concept that the tech industry rallies around, but it is hypocrisy. — Dave Winer

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism. — Mason Cooley

Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance. — Ada Leverson

Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil.
Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil. — William Shakespeare

The intention makes the crime. — Aristotle.

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy. — Lord Byron

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth. — William Hazlitt

After I won the title, I was confronted with the real world. People do not behave naturally anymore - hypocrisy is everywhere. — Boris Spassky

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. — Charles Dickens

When the article of justification is lost, nothing remains except error, hypocrisy, godlessness, and idolatry. — Martin Luther

College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy. — Noel Gallagher

The increasingly cynical court thought Arthur, hypocritical, as all decent men must be if you assume decency cannot exist. — T.H. White

Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet. — Lenore Kandel

Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child. — Don King

The enemy was irony and truth and hypocrisy, that was the real enemy. That was the enemy that was killing him. — James McBride

This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit. — Pete Seeger

Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are. — Shannon L. Alder

Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness. — Matt Chandler

God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish? — Georges Bernanos

Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time everywhere — George W. Bush

To wear long faces, just as if our Maker,
The God of goodness, was an undertaker. — John Wolcot

Sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The devil does some of his best work behind stained glass. — Eugene H. Peterson

It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul. — Benjamin Whichcote

Affronts to her reputation pierced her to the heart, though I couldn't understand why, since she had very little character left to defend. — Melika Dannese Lux

The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: It exists in spite of its ministers. — Heinrich Heine

Let us continue to hone and hone the methods by which man hangs his fellow man and be done, once and for all, with any hypocrisy. — Sergio De La Pava

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

And this hypocrisy found I worst amongst them, that even those who command feign the virtues of those who serve. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Making the world safe for hypocrisy. — Thomas Wolfe

Self-awareness - the commendable ability to be yourself without being a nuisance to someone else. — Criss Jami

The result always mattered more than the rhetoric. — Jeffrey Toobin

the only way to eliminate hypocrisy from human existence is to abandon all principles whatsoever; — Theodore Dalrymple

That is why diplomats smile: it is not hypocrisy - it is a sort of metaphysical awareness of the human impossibility of their task. — Charles Malik

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

Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians. — James Herbert