Century Quote by Neal Stephenson

Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.

— Ambrose Bierce

The Victorians have been immoderately praised, and immoderately blamed, and surely it is time we formed some reasonable picture of them? There was their…

— Robertson Davies

When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does…

— Leland Ryken

“One of the universally despised sins is hypocrisy, falsely pretending to hold beliefs, feelings, standards qualities, opinions, virtues, motivations, or other characteristics that a…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

— Mark McKinnon

“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

[University students] hated the hypocrisy of adult society, the rigidity of its political institutions, the impersonality of its bureaucracies. They sought to create a…

— Muriel Beadle

We, while noting many things amiss about Victorian society, more often sense them judging us.

— A. N. Wilson

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

The logical upshot of liberalism's hatred of hypocrisy is that it is better for the liar to champion lying, the glutton to advocate gluttony,…

— Jonah Goldberg

Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.

— Joseph Goebbels

Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society.

— David Hull