Hypocrisy
In Brief
Saying one thing but doing another. Often, the greater the hypocrisy, the louder the denial.
Quotes
“Hypocrisy is the vice of vices. Hypocrites are rotten to the core.” ~ H. Arendt
“I want that glib and oily art/to speak and purpose not.” ~ William Shakespeare
“It is a very noble hypocrisy not to talk of oneself.” ~ F. Nietzsche
“I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson