“That vice pays homage to virtue is notorious; we call it hypocrisy”
Samuel Butler
“Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices”
Benjamin Franklin
“Virtue practiced to be seen is not real virtue; vice which fears to be seen is real vice”
Chinese Proverbs
“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue”
Moliere
“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
“The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.”
William Hazlitt
“Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.”
Judith Martin
