Book Quote by Rafael Sabatini

Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.

— Sydney J. Harris

“Hypocrisy is saying we believe something, then living as if we didn’t. Hypocrisy is preaching and not practicing. It says do as I say…

— Stephen Altrogge

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being insincerely sincere to expect sincerity is the virtue, most of live with…

— Santanu Mishra

The only conclusive evidence of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy…

— James Russell Lowell

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

— Thomas Fuller

Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.

— Confucius

However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

— Andre Gide

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

Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.

— William Hazlitt

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