Oscar Wilde quote about lie from The Importance of Being Earnest - 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.
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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 (1895). copy citation

Context


Algernon. Oh! I am not really wicked at all, cousin Cecily. You mustn't think that I am wicked.
Cecily. If you are not, then you have certainly been deceiving us all in a very inexcusable manner. 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.
Algernon. [Looks at her in amazement.] Oh! Of course I have been rather reckless.
Cecily. I am glad to hear it.
Algernon.” source

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