Hypocrisy
Definition: The practice of claiming to have higher standards or more noble beliefs than is the case.
Number of Quotes: 3
Is not the brand of double-dealer
stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder? Are not
fraud and hypocrisy the religion of the man who calls himself a democrat, and hold his fellow-man in bondage?
John Quincy Adams
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to
the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
W. Somerset Maugham