Affair Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in…

— Rafael Sabatini

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

Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of…

— Laurence Sterne

Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Two hearted, a hypocrite to yourself either way”

— David Foster Wallace

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

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 when you get mad at a friend for telling their other friend a secret that your other friend told you.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Hypocrisy is the ultimate power move. It is a way of demonstrating that one plays by a different set of rules from the ones…

— Michael Shellenberger

When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own; and this is especially the case…

— Joseph P. Farrell

“Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man who is in the process of changing…all things exist in three reallms, the phiysical, where…

— Brandon Sanderson