Careful Words

hypocrisy (n.)

  A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.

Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) (1805-1881): Speech, March 17, 1845.

  Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Isaac De Benserade (1612-1691): Maxim 218.

  The Americans equally detest the pageantry of a king and the supercilious hypocrisy of a bishop.

Letters of Junius. Letter xxxv.