Hypocrisy Quotes

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.

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

The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.

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.

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

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.

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time everywhere

I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

These days when Christians bicker they exaggerate passion into a legalistic belief and prosperity into a lukewarm belief.

The American people are fed up...with political posturing.' True, but also an example of political posturing.

Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?

Thats called hypocrisy, you shuck face piece of -!

One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.

Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.

Creating some god for one's inspirations was always a good way to avoid accusations of pride should the scheme succeed, as well as the blame if did not.

There is so much hypocrisy in sports.

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.

The impossibility and hypocrisy of a situation where kids are expected to be honest but are judged and alienated from their community because of it should not escape us.

It's time to end the hypocrisy of those who accumulate wealth through the global economy, and then siphon funds to those who teach children to tear it down.

Spread yourself upon his bosom publicly, whose heart you would eat in private.

It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.

It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.

Without a doubt. It's woven into our DNA in a very deep way and so to kind of be smacked in the face with the hypocrisy of the America that we were sold was a liberating and harsh experience.

Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.

I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!

It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.

Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.

The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words.

Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.

Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness or hypocrisy.

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.

A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.

And I think it's really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people's lives.

The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

This is the real tragedy of America's 'Internet freedom agenda': It's going to be the dissidents in China and Iran who will pay for the hypocrisy that drove it from the very beginning.

It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.

An old monkey never makes a pretty face.

I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.

In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.

Alexia abhorred hypocrisy, especially when munitions were involved.

In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy, to put it mildly. Either there's democracy, or there isn't.

Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

Lenny Bruce genius was the unique ability to investigate hypocrisy and expose social inequities in a street rap that was really a form of poetry.

It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.

I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.