How we cite our quotes: (Act.Scene.Line)
Quote #4
PHILINTE
But why protest when someone ridicules
Those you'd condemn, yourself, as knaves or fools? (2.5.119)
This is a good question. If Alceste is so moral and wants everyone else to feel the same way as he does, why does he get upset when they do? We smell a rat.
Quote #5
CELIMENE
It's all an act.
At heart she's worldly, and her poor success
In snaring men explains her prudishness.
It breaks her heart to see the beaux and gallants
Engrossed by other women's charms and talents,
And so she's always in a jealous rage
Against the faulty standards of the age.
She lets the world believe that she's a prude
To justify her loveless solitude.
(3.3.7)
Arsinoé is a textbook definition of a hypocrite. She pretends to have morals that she really doesn't, just because she can't get a date. Really, we kind of feel sorry for her.
Quote #6
CELIMENE
Discussing piety, both false and true.
The conversation soon came round to you.
[…]
"What good," they said, "are all these outward shows,
When everything belies her pious pose?
She prays incessantly; but then, they say,
She beats her maids and cheats them of their pay;
She shows her zeal in every holy place,
But still she's vain enough to paint her face;
She holds that naked statues are immoral,
But with a naked man she'd have no quarrel." (3.5.46)
Shnap! If anyone defines hypocrisy in the play, it's Arsinoé. She's so moral that she can't even stand to look at naked statues, but everyone knows that she would totally jump at a naked Alceste.