Hypocrisy Quotes

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

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

When cleverness emerges There is great hypocrisy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know.

I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.

The truth is, the hypocrisy of humans is everywhere

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.

Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.

Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.

I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.

Some of the most flowery praise you hear on the subject of teams is only hypocrisy. Managers learn to talk a good game about teams even when they're secretly threatened by the whole concept.

God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?

One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.

In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

This is an example of hypocrisy

If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply; I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong.

History is the chronicle of divorces between creed and deed.

If a man is devout, we accuse him of hypocrisy; if he is not, of impiety; if he is humble, we look on his humility as a weakness; if he is generous, we call his courage pride.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism.

Asleep, nobody is a hypocrite

A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.

The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging.

It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.

Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.

There's an attraction to emotional clusters or hypocrisies or awkwardness. A desire to expose something or point at something that's already poking out.

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

I always compare marriage to communism. They're both institutions that don't conform to human nature, so you're going to end up with lying and hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy is fatal to religion.

Children have an uncanny memory for what parents say, but don't do.

Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.

Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.

Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.

A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.

We don't live in a democracy; we live in a hypocrisy.

The hypocrisy seems pathological among the stars. And yet we desperately want to believe Armstrong is immune to dishonesty in the same way everyone wanted to grant McGwire a pass in 1998.

Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.

I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.