722 Quotes About Hypocrisy

It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest.

Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.

The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.

Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.

Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others.

An old monkey never makes a pretty face.

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

It's a seemingly legitimate way of pointing out hypocrisy. Is there really hypocrisy there? Probably, but in more cases, probably not.