Hypocrisy Quotes

This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.

If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

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

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.

Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.

Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.

Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist!

Those who pretend to know what they don't, will be thought ignorant of even what they know.

The human heart has so many crannies where vanity hides, so many holes where falsehood works, is so decked out with deceiving hypocrisy, that it often dupes itself.

[Eve] sees through Satan's disquise of clever hypocrisy, identifies him, and exposes him for what he is...[ever since Satan has] had it in for women.

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

After I won the title, I was confronted with the real world. People do not behave naturally anymore - hypocrisy is everywhere.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

False modesty is the most decent of all lies.

Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods.

No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.

Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are the plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave.

Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn't, they couldn't endure.

I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance.

He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.

The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.

If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign.

Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.

How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

Dare to dream of your great success.

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show.

At a time when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the export of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy for the United States to export tobacco.

Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.