Then appeared wisdom and shrewdness, and there ensued…

Everybody should read 'Slaughterhouse-Five' by Kurt Vonnegut. This book is about the hypocrisy of war, told in satire, and is hard-hitting and truthful.

— Kalki Koechlin

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

— Vladimir Lenin

“In all, the future secretary of defense and wartime vice president[, Dick Cheney,] would receive five deferments during the Vietnam War, protecting him from…

— Charlie Savage

“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under…

— Charlotte Brontë

Bigoted people are just scholars who lack any sort of legitimate credentials to answer why they're bigoted.

— Doctavius

The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done…

— John Ridley

Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

— Larry Flynt

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

— William Hazlitt

Mayor De Blasio's appointment of Bill Bratton as police commissioner is the height of hypocrisy. Asking Bratton to stop racial profiling and stop and…

— Charles Barron

It's about time Hypocrisy should be adopted as a religion, considering it's got more followers than any other religion on this planet.

— Ashutosh Cheulkar

I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.

— Ovid

One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.

— Honore de Balzac

A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred,…

— Mary Baker Eddy

“even the worst men wanted to be perceived as better than they were. How else could hypocrisy have risen to such delirious levels?”

— Donna Leon

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

— Margaret Deland