Also Quote by Michael Leunig

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and…

— Bernard de Mandeville

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

Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to…

— Hannah Arendt

In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society.

— David Hull

People are hypocritical. That's just human nature. I embrace my hypocrisy. Once you come to grips with who you are and what's in you,…

— Lupe Fiasco

“Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does…

— Frederich Nietzsche

“It is easy for one to be a hypocrite unashamedly because so often knowledge leads to justification: we know ourselves and our own reasons…

— Criss Jami

Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

— Peter Kreeft

People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.

— Rumi

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are…

— Jonathan Edwards

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

— Mason Cooley