"Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation." — Honore de Balzac

More Hypocrisy Quotes

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• Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite… — Hannah Arendt
• When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows… — 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… — 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… — 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
• No crime is so great as daring to excel. — Winston Churchill

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