Hypocrisy Quotes
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That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
— Alexander Pope
Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
— Honore De Balzac
Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy.
— Richard B. Garnett
Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood and then mount the stump to make a speech for conservation.
— Adlai Ewing Stevenson
Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
— Warren W. Wiersbe
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.
— Jeremy Hardy
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.
— Sigmund Freud
A lot of lip service gets paid to being honest, but no one really wants to hear it unless what's being said is the party line.
— Colin Quinn
If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.
— Neal Stephenson
Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.
— Charles Studd
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.
— Vladimir Lenin
It takes a profound hypocrisy to try to reconcile for others things that you can't reconcile for yourself.
— Jerry A. Coyne
I do not believe in hypocrisy.
— Vijay Mallya
Cheating is pure hypocrisy. Our partner deserves better than that. If we don't love someone, we should not be with them. That would also be hypocrisy.
— Cathy Burnham Martin
A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Ambition ... the original of vices;Mother of hypocrisy, parent of envy, engineer of deceit — Ernest Hemingway,
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.
— Luc De Clapiers
Hypocrissist: A narcissist who has their head so far up their ass they can't hear the hypocrisy coming out of their mouth.
— Joel McDonald
We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.
— Jose Emilio Pacheco
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.
— Margaret Deland
Yet the order of the acts is planned And the end of the way inescapable. I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy.
— Boris Pasternak
Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation.
— Iskander Mirza
When the article of justification is lost, nothing remains except error, hypocrisy, godlessness, and idolatry.
— Martin Luther
College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.
— Noel Gallagher
And this hypocrisy found I worst amongst them, that even those who command feign the virtues of those who serve.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Hypocrisy has its own elegant symmetry.
— Julie Metz
Shared grief is just pride with a sad face.
— Matt Chandler
Where there is hypocrisy, there is hope.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
If physical fasting is not accompanied by mental fasting it is bound to end in hypocrisy and disaster.
— Mahatma Gandhi
He denounced self-pity and pitied himself.
— Jeffrey Toobin
We don't live in a democracy; we live in a hypocrisy.
— Sarah Silverman
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
— Virginia Woolf
Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil.Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil. — William Shakespeare
No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest.
— Thomas Piketty
All intellectual missionaries tend to lechery.
— Marian Engel
Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.
— Honore De Balzac
Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity.
— Margaret Of Valois
Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.
— Shannon L. Alder
If you want to be an honorable man, then be what you pretend to be.
— Shannon L. Alder
Hypocrites,' replied Cale, 'I've come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.
— Paul Hoffman
Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
— George Bernard Shaw
The enemy was irony and truth and hypocrisy, that was the real enemy. That was the enemy that was killing him.
— James McBride
Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence.
— Toba Beta
One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith ...
— Susan Sontag
I don't lie and cheat, but I don't always avoid actions that would be lying and cheating if someone else did them.
— Robert Breault
Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate.
— Michael Arrington
To condemn your sin in another is hypocrisy. Not to condemn is to reserve your right to sin.
— James Richardson
Elinor was always firmly convinced of other people's hypocrisy since she could not believe that they noticed less than she did.
— Mary McCarthy
He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn't smile when they say that he rocks.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue.
— Judith Martin
If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.
— Michael Kinsley
Net neutrality is a concept that the tech industry rallies around, but it is hypocrisy.
— Dave Winer
If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.
— Eleanor Clift
I care not for your envy, or your hypocrisy, or even for your human nature.
— James Fenimore Cooper
Hypocrisy is annoying but not evil. Someone who says one thing and does another has doubled their chances of being half right.
— Penn Jillette
the only way to eliminate hypocrisy from human existence is to abandon all principles whatsoever;
— Theodore Dalrymple
Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?
— Georges Bernanos
He who laughs worst, weeps first
— Paul Haddad
Hypocrisy is power
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.
— Matt Chandler
Religion thrives on woolly allegory, emotional commitments to texts that no one reads, and other forms of benign hypocrisy.
— Steven Pinker
Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.
— James Herbert
That is why diplomats smile: it is not hypocrisy - it is a sort of metaphysical awareness of the human impossibility of their task.
— Charles Malik
Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
The result always mattered more than the rhetoric.
— Jeffrey Toobin
Making the world safe for hypocrisy.
— Thomas Wolfe
When people don't respect one another seldom is there honesty.
— Shannon L. Alder
Tolerance level of each one changes as per situation - Is it Hypocrisy ?
— Adil Adam Memon
Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
There was a pause while Pendergast considered this. I prefer hypocrisy to poverty.
— Douglas Preston
