quotations about hypocrisy
The hypocrite desires more to seem good than to be so. He is like the scorpion that thinks that when its head is under a leaf it cannot be seen. He is zealous in little things but negligent in the more important. He is more troubled by the outbursts of a sinful disposition than by the disposition itself.
HENRY F. KLETZING & ELMER L. KLETZING
"Hypocrisy", Traits of Character Illustrated in Bible Light
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
OSCAR WILDE
The Importance of Being Earnest
You never come right out and admit you have stretched the rules for your own benefit. You do it and shut up about it, and hope you don't get caught, because if you are caught no one--or no one who has any sense--will come forward and say he has done the same thing himself.
JANET MALCOLM
The Journalist and the Murderer