Balzac Honoré De 1799-1850
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Disraeli Benjamin 1804-1881
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
Emerson Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for then we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
La Rochefoucauld François Duc de 1613-1680
Maxims
Hypocrisy is a tribute which vice pays to virtue.
Maugham W. Somerset 1874-1965
Cakes and Ale
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.
Michener Wendy
The British are just as keen to make money as the Americans, but they prefer hypocrisy to a blatantly commercial attitude.
Milton John 1608-1674
Paradise Lost
For neither man nor angel can discern
Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks
Invisible, except to God alone.
Nietzsche Friedrich 1844-1900
Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy.
Shaw George Bernard 1856-1950
The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parent's first duty.
Wilde Oscar 1854-1900
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.