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Hypocrisy Quotes by William Hazlitt
- He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.
- As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.
- Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.
- We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
- Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite
- The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
- A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.
More Hypocrisy Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. — Honore de Balzac
- When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much. — Enid Bagnold
- The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself. — Jane Addams
- Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy. — Ambrose Bierce
- He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. — Edmund Burke
- In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy. — Lord Byron
- There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know. — Lewis Carroll
- Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a… — Benjamin Carson
- I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition. — Fidel Castro
- Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin