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“When the article of justification is lost, nothing remains except error, hypocrisy, godlessness, and idolatry.” Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians
“No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures” Albert Camus, The Fall
“Worse than all, you are candid, and it often happens that our happiness depends on certain social hypocrisies to which you will never stoop.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“If you can't beat it or corrupt it, you pretend it was your idea in the first place.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friendship
“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy;...” George Orwell, 1984
“I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.” Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
“But 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, Lady Windermere's Fan
“The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.” Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom
“Without Christ there is no access to the Father, but futile rambling; no truth, but hypocrisy; no life, but eternal death.” Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians
“To mimic virtue is of every age; but the hypocrisy of luxury belongs more particularly to the ages of democracy.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“There's daggers in men's smiles.” William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“I used to advertise my loyalty and I don’t believe there is a single person I loved that I didn’t eventually betray.” Albert Camus, The Fall
“And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“If that the earth could teem with woman's tears, each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.” William Shakespeare, Othello
“What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.” Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
“For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.” Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
“There are some upon this earth of yours . . . who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had...” Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
“Anyone who has considerably meditated on man, by profession or vocation, is led to feel nostalgia for the primates. They at least don't have any ulterior motives.” Albert Camus, The Fall
“Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.” William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
“To pity the unfortunate is not contrary to lust. On the contrary, we can quite well give such evidence of friendship, and acquire the reputation of kindly feeling, without giving anything. ” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts I suppose the first effect would be that almost all friendships would be dissolved” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“Often I must speak otherwise than I think . . . This is called diplomacy.” Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
“Conscience, my dear fellow, is a stick which every one takes up to beat his neighbor and not for application to his own back.” Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions
“Courtesy of tongue . . . when it is used to veil churlishness of deed, is but a knight's girdle around the breast of a base clown.” Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
“When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have a hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true, that nothing is sincere.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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