Hypocrisy Quotes

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

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

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!

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.

To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.

The manifestation of the disease of fear is anger, hate, sadness, envy, and hypocrisy; the result of the disease is all the emotions that make humans suffer.

People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way.

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

In other words, I’m against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and the seemingly limitless capacity for hypocrisy shown by Bush and his administration.

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be criticized of.

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

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

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them.

Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.

Reagan and Bush... made the world safe for hypocrisy.

Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated.

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

when a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it.

When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy.

He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see.

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .

One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.

Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?

To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn't about charity, it's about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.

Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!.. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.

As if the world and they were hand and glove.

Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.

The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.

Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to nurture creative work.

I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you.

I do not believe in hypocrisy.

The intention makes the crime.

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.