These are our collection of our Favorite Hypocrisy Quotes. Mind you, Hypocrisy is not my Favorite vice or virtue. These just happen to be our favorite quotes..But then we see a lot of Hypocrisy around, and if we look at ourselves, we may also not be saints at all. I hope these famous quotes about hypocrisy will at least help us look at ourselves and see for ourselves how true we are to ourselves.
He does not believe who does not live according to his belief.
~Thomas Fuller
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
~ Oscar Wilde
Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
I don’t never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks’ straight is what bothers me.
~Josh Billings
The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. ~ William Hazlitt
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob
~ Oscar Wilde
How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.
~Voltaire
Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox.
~English Proverb
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity
~ Andre Gide
Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can’t bear to have anyone else one.
~Josh Billings
Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion
~ Mahatma Gandhi’s sayings
Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!
~ Lord Byron
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
~William Shakespeare
Prudery is the hypocrisy of modesty
~Unknown Saying
Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy
~ Lord Byron
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
~Arthur Schopenhauer
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
~Mignon McLaughlin
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.
~ Stendhal’s quote
For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone.
~John Milton’s saying on the subject
Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
~ John Milton
Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is
~ Rebecca West
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
~George Bernard Shaw’s Hypocrisy Quote
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing
~ Edmund Burke
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
~Oscar Wilde
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
~James Russell Lowell
Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste
~ George Bernard Shaw
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
~Socrates’ sayings on Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.
~Victor Hugo
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
~Schopenhauer
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.
~ Samuel Johnson
All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy
~ Lord Byron
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
~ La Rochefoucauld
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.
~Oscar Wilde
Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.
~Jonah Goldberg
Be hypocritical, be cautious, be Not what you seem but always what you see.
~ Lord Byron
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Politeness is the most acceptable hypocrisy
~ Ambrose Bierce
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
~Jean Kerr
Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.
~François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld
Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue
~ Moliere
As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth
~ William Hazlitt
A great deal of what passes for current Christianity consists in denouncing other people’s vices and faults.
~Henry H. Williams
Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society.
~ David Hull
Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.
~ Martin Luther
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