Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

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

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.

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

Be a hypocrite if you like, but don't talk like one.

Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.

Every race, every art has its hypocrisy. The world is fed with a little truth and many lies.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

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

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

We all lie to each other, present some sort of front.

The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy is the vaseline of political intercourse.

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.

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

Hypocrisy is the universal solvent of social relations.

Don't disrespect me, lie about it, and then come smile in my face and act like nothing's wrong.

Hypocrites are more enraging than extremists, as every campaign operative knows.

Affectation hath always had a greater share both in the action and discourse of men than truth and judgment have.

Dissimulation creeps gradually into the minds of men.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.