Quotes on Hypocrisy

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

Author: Honore Balzac

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Author: Edmund Burke

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

Author: Edwin Chapin

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

Author: William Hazlitt

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

Author: Jose Marti

Reagan and Bush... made the world safe for hypocrisy.

Author: Julia Phillips

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

Author: Richard Pryor

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

Author: Bill Pullman

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

Author: Jonathan Shapiro

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Author: Stendhal

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

Author: Alexander Theroux

Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.

Author: Elizabeth Wurtzel