Awake Quote by Leo Tolstoy

When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy.

— Laozi

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit.…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of…

— Laurence Sterne

Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up…

— Lord David Cecil

Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it…

— Leo Tolstoy

This is an example of hypocrisy

— Miuccia Prada

Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.

— Anton Chekhov

Hypocrisy is the ultimate power move. It is a way of demonstrating that one plays by a different set of rules from the ones…

— Michael Shellenberger

Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society.

— David Hull

Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.

— Mason Cooley

When you have children your own hypocrisy becomes more apparent because you're telling them how to behave, and you're not behaving like that yourself.…

— Danny Boyle

Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.

— John Calvin