1. Be as you wish to seem.

- Socrates

2. What’s the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?

- Jess C. Scott

3. I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

- Christopher Hitchens

4. Stand up to hypocrisy. If you don’t, the hypocrites will teach. Stand up to ignorance, because if you don’t, the ignorant will run free to spread ignorance like a disease. Stand up for Truth! If you don’t, there is no Truth to your existence. If you don’t stand up for all that is right, then understand that you are part of the reason that there is so much wrong in the world.

- Suzy Kassem

5. Hypocrisy is a proud desire to appear better than you are. Be thoroughly humbled and vile in your own eyes, and hypocrisy is done.

- Richard Baxter

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

- Moliere

7. We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities.

- Henri Frederic Amiel

8. He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.

- William Hazlitt

9. Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

- Warren W. Wiersbe

10. Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

- Abraham Lincoln

11. When men think and believe in one set of symbols and act in ways which are contrary to their professed and conscious ideas, confusion and insincerity are bound to result.

- John Dewey

12. The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

- Jane Addams

13. Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

14. Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

- Alexander Theroux

15. Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.

- Norm Macdonald

16. Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.

- Wes Fesler

17. People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

18. People will disapprove of you if you’re unhappy, or if you’re happy in the wrong way.

- Mignon McLaughlin

19. In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

20. It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.

- Alfred Adler

21. Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

- Jose Marti

22. Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

23. Hypocrisy, like a fever, boils up within while being cold without. What dropsy is for the body, hypocrisy is for the soul.

- Peter Chrysologus

24. Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

- Jonah Goldberg

25. Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.

- Victor Hugo

26. How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

- Oscar Wilde

27. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

- Leo Tolstoy

28. Hypocrisy is the resin that holds the plywood of society together.

- Scott Meyer

29. Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

30. Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

- George Berard Shaw

31. You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people.

- Joel Osteen

32. Sometimes it’s not the person who changes, it’s the mask that falls off.

- Mhaj Porras

33. I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.

- Malcolm X

34. I feel like a big faker because I’ve been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.

- Stephen Chbosky

35. Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.

- Ambrose Bierce

36. To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

- Charles Lamb

37. Hypocrisy is folly; for it is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man seems to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.

- Lord Burleigh

38. Hypocrisy is a permission slip to our morals, telling them to take a holiday.

- F. H. Buckley

39. Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up the appearance of being what he is not.

- Lord David Cecil

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

- Andre Gide

41. All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

- Theodore Hesburgh

42. The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!

- Tennessee Williams

43. 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 Price

44. We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Arthur Schopenhauer

46. Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

- Mark McKinnon

47. When you delete hypocrites from your life, good things will start happening and it won’t be a coincidence.

- Paolo Coelho

48. A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

- Adlai Stevenson

49. He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

50. Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once.

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

51. Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

- Alan Dershowitz

52. Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you’re saying when you’re being a hypocrite.

- Dr. Ben Carson

53. No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

- Bernard de Mandeville

54. Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

- W. Somerset Maugham

55. History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

- Edmund Burke

56. The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

- Socrates

57. A hypocrite is a studied cheat – an imposter – a knave – a made fool, and one who generally finds himself the worst cheated, at last.

- Able Brewster

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

- Raisa Gorbacheva

59. Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.

- Martin Luther

60. He that puts on a religious habit abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives like an atheist at home, shall at the last be uncovered by God and presented before all the world for a most outrageous hypocrite.

- Thomas Brooks

61. When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn’t swallow the hypocrisy.

- Barry White

62. The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

63. It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.

- Charles Caleb Colton

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

- William Hazlitt

65. There is so much hypocrisy in sports.

- Dennis Rodman

66. The world’s flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.

- Rumi

67. Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

- Mahatma Gandhi

68. It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.

- Publilius Syrus

69. The difference between my darkness and your darkness is that I can look at my own badness in the face and accept its existence while you are busy covering your mirror with a white linen sheet.

- C. JoyBell C.

70. The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

- Paul Wellstone

71. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.

- Samuel Johnson

72. Ask any of my teammates. I never asked any of them to do something I wasn’t willing to do myself.

- Michael Jordan

73. Hypocrisy is like this: she has a face of burnished gold and an eye of pleasing crystal, but on the inside of her heart all is of lead, flat and useless.

- John Gower

74. For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

- John Milton

75. There is nothing more aggravating than a hypocrite.

- Farley Granger, They Call Me Trinity

76. I think we need to look at ourselves first. We should practice what we’re preaching. Otherwise, we are hypocrites.

- Mo Ibrahim

77. The three kinds of people I dislike most are Gossips, Liars, and Hypocrites.

- Carole Radziwill

78. All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another’s presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best.

- O. Henry, An Early Parable

79. An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

- T. S. Eliot

80. Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry.

- Julie Metz

81. There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy: hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

- Frederick William Robertson

82. They’re not happy for you because they wish it was them.

- Carlos Wallace

83. Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.

- Elbert Hubbard

84. The core problem of hypocrisy is that it precludes the accurate appraisal of moral worth, privileging appearance over reality.

- Ronald C. Naso

85. Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.

- Charles Spurgeon

86. Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

- W. Somerset Maugham

87. I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words.

- Henri Nouwen

88. Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

89. If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.

- Charles Caleb Colton

90. There are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

- Oscar Wilde

91. All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

- Julius Caesar

92. Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

- Noam Chomsky

93. Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.

- Teddy Roosevelt

94. What’s wrong with our children? Adults telling children to be honest while lying and cheating. Adults telling children to not be violent while marketing and glorifying violence… I believe that adult hypocrisy is the biggest problem children face in America.

- Marian Wright Edelman

95. Those who parade piety as a purpose and an aim mostly turn into hypocrites.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

96. Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

- Leo Tolstoy

97. Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

- Jean Kerr

98. Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.

- Laurence Sterne

99. No task is more difficult than systematic hypocrisy.

- Eddie George

100. You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

- Oliver Goldsmith

101. No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

102. All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

- Logan Pearsall Smith

103. Time passes and you begin to see, people for who they really are and not who they pretend to be.

- Scarlet Koop

104. This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.

- Pete Seger

105. Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

- Stendhal

106. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.

- Anais Nin

107. Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

- Benjamin Franklin

108. In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue – is hypocrisy.

- Lord Byron

109. Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.

- John Calvin

110. Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

- Leo Tolstoy

111. An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

- Michael Korda

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

113. A hypocrite is in himself both the archer and the mark, in all actions shooting at his own praise or profit.

- Thomas Fuller

114. For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

- Galatians 6:3, ESV

115. Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

- Christiano Ronaldo

116. Satire was evidently designed by Heaven for the purpose of unveiling hypocrites and rendering the vile ridiculous.

- Able Brewster

117. 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

118. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to profess things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

- Thomas Paine

119. Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.

- Hosea Ballou

120. Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

- Dennis Wholey

121. No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne