Denis Diderot Quotes

Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

The American people are tired of liars and people who pretend to be something they're not.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

It’s better to be quotable than to be honest.

It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

A creep is someone who claims he's one thing but he's actually another.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

The worst crime is faking it.

Hypocrisy is the vaseline of political intercourse.

Fakery in allegiance to the truth.

We have a Sunday code and a weekday code. We preach good and practice evil. We clothe the wolf of our actions in the sheep's clothing of our beautiful phrases.

Men condemne the same things in others, which they approve in themselves; on the other side, they publickly commend what they privately condemne;

Neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone.

Oh Lord. Deliver us from the hypocrisy of talking to sound reasonable while not being reasonable.

Hypocrisy is the universal solvent of social relations.

All I can say is anybody who's spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.

I loathe people who are disingenuous or inauthentic.