Definition of Hypocrisy

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Hypocrisy

The act or practice of a hypocrite; a feigning to be what one is not, or to feel what one does not feel; a dissimulation, or a concealment of one's real character, disposition, or motives; especially, the assuming of false appearance of virtue or religion; a simulation of goodness.

Related Definitions:

Act, Appearance, Assuming, Be, Character, Concealment, Disposition, Dissimulation, Does, Especially, False, Feel, Feigning, Goodness, Hypocrite, Is, Not, Of, One, Or, Practice, Real, Religion, Simulation, The, To, Virtue, What

Hypocrisy Quotations

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
Lord Byron

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Ambrose Bierce

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Edmund Burke

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
Fidel Castro

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.
Richard Pryor

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
Jose Marti

There is so much hypocrisy in sports.
Dennis Rodman

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
Barry White

Hypocrisy Translations

hypocrisy in French is hypocrisie
hypocrisy in German is Heuchelei
hypocrisy in Italian is ipocrisia
hypocrisy in Norwegian is skinnhellighet, hykleri
hypocrisy in Swedish is hyckleri

Quotes