Ralph Waldo Emerson Hypocrisy Quotations

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.

Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.