Hypocrisy Quotes

All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

The world is looking, not for Christians who are perfect, but for Christians who are honest and who are willing to be honest with some of our contradictions and hypocrisy.

Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

A man who should act, for one day, on the supposition that all the people about him were influenced by the religion which they professed would find himself ruined by night.

It's always easier to spot others' hypocrisies while missing our own.

Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.

An once of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.

We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?

If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your contempt for the world is mere hypocrisy and funk.

Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy is propaganda.

The Bishop has a skin, God knows, Wrinkled like the foot of a goose, (All find safety in the tomb.) Nor can he hide in holy black The heron's hunch upon his back, But a birch-tree stood my Jack.

There is only truth to be found - no lies, no shams, no illusions, no hypocrisy. Just a truthful place, where all beings are governed by a set of perfect laws that have never changed and never will.

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.

America must begin the struggle for democracy at home. The advocacy of free elections in Europe by American officials is hypocrisy when free elections are not held in great sections of America.

Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy.

I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor".

It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.

Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation.

A saint abroad, and a devil at home.

Sin is not so sinful as hypocrisy.

If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character.

I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.

I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them with a deep, living, godlike hatred.

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.

Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.

Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.

The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its ministers.

My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it."

Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!