No. There had been nothing more. Through vanity he had…

“Through vanity he had spared her.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Life as it proceeds reveals, cooly and dispassionately, what lies behind the mask that each man wears. It would seem that everyone possesses several…

— Sadegh Hedayat

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that…

— Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

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

— William Hazlitt

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

— Larry Flynt

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

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

— Doctavius

“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

“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

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

— Vladimir Lenin

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