Coastal Quote by Neal Stephenson

Virtue is necessary to a republic.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

— Grover Norquist

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

— Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld

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

— Moliere

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

— Various

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue

— François De La Rochefoucauld

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

Without God there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience,...without God democracy will not and cannot long endure.

— Ronald Reagan

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