William Hazlitt Hypocrisy Quotations

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.

Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.

Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite

As hypocrisy is said to be the highest compliment to virtue, the art of lying is the strongest acknowledgment of the force of truth.

Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.