Hypocrisy Quotes

There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c’est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy!

Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn’t do the hangman’s job.

All men are moral. Only their neighbors are not.

Those who are believed to be most self-abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious.

Manners are the hypocrisy of nations, and hypocrisy is more or less perfect.[Les mœurs sont l’hypocrisie des nations; l’hypocrisie est plus ou moins perfectionnée.]

Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!

Hypocrisy is a privileged vice, which, with its own hand, closes the mouth of all the world, and peacefully enjoys a sovereign impunity.[L’hypocrisie est un vice privilégié qui, de fa main, serme la bouche à tout le monde, et jouit en repos d’une impunité souveraine.]

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtues.[L’hypocrisie est un vice à la mode, et tous les vices à la mode passent pour vertus.]