With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. – Charles Dickens

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

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. – Oscar Wilde

Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness. – Victor Hugo

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

A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night. – Thomas Macaulay

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. – Schopenhauer

Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors. – Jean Baptiste Molière, Tartuffe

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality. – Mignon McLaughlin

They are not all saints who use holy water. – English Proverb

When you say that you agree with a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. – Otto von Bismarck

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom. – Aldous Huxley

If we divine a discrepancy between a man’s words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted. – Charles Horton Cooley

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue. – Moliere

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

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing.  One that sounds good, and a real one. – J. Pierpoint Morgan

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. – Abraham Lincoln

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others. – Jacob M. Braude

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. – Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. – Alfred Adler

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others. – Elizabeth Drew

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

Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents… pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. – Abraham Lincoln

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging. – Martin Luther

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

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners – let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. – Aldous Huxley