Quotes on Being A Hypocrite

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

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

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

Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

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

If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

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