Character Quote by Michael Kinsley

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

— Grover Norquist

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue

— François De La Rochefoucauld

“Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.”

— Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .

— Albert Pike

“Hypocrisy is a sort of homage that vice pays to virtue.”

— Various

“Hypocrisy is said to be the homage that vice pays to virtue,—decorum is the outward expression of that homage; and if this be so,…

— Charles Robert Maturin

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same…

— William Hazlitt

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

— Moliere

“Hypocrisy a homage is true, That vice pays to virtue, Be man - himself so true, That no false does he brew.”

— Munindra Misra

Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would…

— Joseph Addison