Hypocrisy

(462 votes)   Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(328 votes)   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
1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher

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(315 votes)   And why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? [Matthew 7:3]

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(307 votes)   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
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(307 votes)   The wicked work harder to preach hell than the righteous do to get to heaven.

American Proverbs
Sayings of American Origin

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(305 votes)   Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.

Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet

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(301 votes)   Often a noble face hides filthy ways.

Euripides
BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(300 votes)   It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

Thomas Paine
1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer

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(295 votes)   At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(289 votes)   With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

Charles Dickens
1812-1870, British Novelist

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(286 votes)   There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others; those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation; which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and talk much of free grace; but at the same time make righteousness of their discoveries, and of their humiliation, and exalt themselves to heaven with them.

Jonathan Edwards
1703-1758, British Theologian, Metaphysician

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(285 votes)   When you see a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend on it, that he keeps a very small stock of it within.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon
1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher

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(283 votes)   Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld
1613-1680, French Classical Writer

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(280 votes)   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.

Count Leo Tolstoy
1828-1910, Russian Novelist, Philosopher

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

John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet

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