Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.

Hypocrisy/hi pakrise/ noun1. The moment you tell someone it is not important to be right, in order to look right to everyone else.

There’s nothing more powerful in “Your Moment of Truth” than people owning their truth, their part in a situation.

Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.

He keeps his voice kindly but remote. A cross between a pedagogue, soothsayer, and a benevolent uncle – that should be his tone.

The unknowing take it as advice and can't tell the "teller" is only describing themselves through what they speak against the next.

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they would not otherwise be able to approach.

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

You sanctimonious philistines, who scoff at me!What has your politics fed onsince you've been ruling the world?On butchery and murder!

He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never say, "Die!" Paltry, prudent hypocrites!

All people may not always know those who are not actually good, but they sooner or later get to know all those who are always relatively good.