Fear puts an end to openness of manner; fear leads to concealment; fear sows the seed of much hypocrisy, and leads to many a lie.

Children are very quick observers; very quick in seeing through some kinds of hypocrisy, very quick in finding out what you really think and feel, very quick in adopting all your ways and opinions. You will often discover that, as the father is, so is the son.

To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

Chinese immigrant: “Americans make a mere practice of loving justice.”

See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocrisy.

Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.

She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

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

To impose on others is hypocrisy; while to impose on oneself is a stage beyond hypocrisy.

I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means – except by getting off his back.