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

  Andre Gide

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Perception, Hypocrisy, Lying

• Go put your creed into the deed,Nor speak with double tongue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Advice, Ideals

  Tags in Hypocrisy, Creed, Credo

• Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ostentation, Signals, Flag, Hypocrisy

• 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

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Hypocrisy

• Honest discussions – even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree – can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.

  David E. Price

  Topics in Country, Honesty

  Tags in Hypocrisy, Arrogance

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

  Richard Pryor

  Topics in Racism

  Tags in Hypocrisy

• There’s no hypocrisy in Hell’s Kitchen.

  Ethel Waters

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hypocrisy

• A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Hypocrisy, Despises

• The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Hypocrisy, Courage

• Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Topics in Vision

  Tags in Hypocrisy, Stead, Wail, Beheld, Corruption

• What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

  Hannah Arendt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hypocrisy, Evil, Conscience

• Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hypocrisy, Politeness

• When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don’t advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

  John Kerry

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Injustice, Hypocrisy, Language

• Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion.

  Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Hypocrisy, Lying

• Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another — too often ending in the loss of both.

  Tryon Edwards

  Topics in Sacrifice

  Tags in Hypocrisy

• One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.

  Moliere

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Empathy, Hypocrisy

• We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hypocrisy, Sleep

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

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hypocrisy, Forgiveness

• Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

  Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, Hypocrisy, Virtue

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

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Vice, Hypocrisy, Repentance