Hypocrisy Quotes

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Johann von Goethe

Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the division of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)

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

Edmund Burke

Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.

Raisa M. Gorbachev

A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.

Benjamin Disraeli, Speech in the House of Commons, Mar. 3, 1845