Hypocrisy Quotes

Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself.

Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.

Most think that they are above being supported by the town; but it oftener happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which would be more disreputable.

To speak impartially, the best men that I know are not serene, a world in themselves. For the most part, they dwell in forms, andflatter and study effect only more finely than the rest.

If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him.

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.

Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.

How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.

I'm paid to preach not to practice.

My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne.

There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.

You can't top that remark for hypocrisy or the setting for irony. It isn't the middle class who write $32,500 checks. Those who do expect something in return. They've been getting it.

Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.

While [Bob] Dylan's folk fans thought he was selling out [in 1965-67], actually Dylan was lodging a stronger, deeper critique of American hypocrisy.

It takes a profound hypocrisy to try to reconcile for others things that you can't reconcile for yourself.

Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once.

If the empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should be over-thrown with it, what advantage will be gained?

The political spirit is the great force in throwing the love of truth and accurate reasoning into a secondary place.

We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together, and considered what went before and what followed after, we should find it meant no such thing.

To wear long faces, just as if our Maker, The God of goodness, was an undertaker.

Either you look back and deal with your hypocrisy, or you dismiss it.

People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.

The West exploited Africa and now it wants to save it. We have been living with this hypocrisy for too long. Africa can only be saved by Africans.

Where there is hypocrisy, there is hope.

What I don't understand is how a policy against outing trumps a policy of reporting. Whenever you're reporting on hypocrisy, you're kind of 'outing' something to begin with.

There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy

Prayer has never made you right, because right now our world of Islam is filled with abject hypocrisy in its religiosity.

What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.

Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity.

A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.

Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.

Washington always has a high level of hypocrisy, right, but I think the level of hypocrisy that has come out of the United States Senate on both sides of the aisle is amazing.

Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate.

He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat.

Is it not enough to make me come back to life out of spite, to have someone who spat in my face while I existed come and rub my feet when I am beginning to exist no longer?

If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.

I think [audiences are] more aware now of the contradictions in mainstream culture, the phony piety that permeates society, the inhumane hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.

A good example brings about so much good, but hypocrisy brings about so much evil.

The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.

Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.’ – Book 3, Chapter 16

My function here is to destroy all hypocrisy in you.

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.

I don't lie and cheat, but I don't always avoid actions that would be lying and cheating if someone else did them.

The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.