Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy is the state of promoting or administering virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually have or is also guilty of violating. Hypocrisy often involves the deception of others and thus can be considered a kind of lie.

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Famous quotes containing the word hypocrisy:

    “Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Isaiah, 65:5.

    God, upbraiding hypocrisy among the Jews.

    “Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Even innocence itself has many a wile,
    And will not dare to trust itself with truth,
    And love is taught hypocrisy from youth.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)