Hypocrisy

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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
 Oscar Wilde
 The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895

The truth? You can’t handle the truth!
 From the movie
 A Few Good Men, 1992

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
 Leo Tolstoy
 What to Do?, 1887

All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.
 Logan Pearsall Smith
 Afterthoughts, 1931

Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!
 From the movie
 Dr. Strangelove, 1964

It became necessary to destroy the town in order to save it.
 US officer
 Vietnam, 1968

I am shocked. Shocked!
 from the movie
 Casablanca, 1943

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