Quotes About Hypocrites and Hypocrisy

Many of us believe that wrongs aren’t wrong if it’s done by nice people like ourselves. – Author Unknown

It’s silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites, poltroons. – Henry Miller

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The hypocrite’s crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. – Hannah Arendt