Hypocrisy Quotes

Here bhikkhus, some misguided men learn the Dhamma–discourses, stanzas, expositions, verses, exclama...

But I cant stand saying one thing when everyone knows I mean another. Whats the use in such hypocris...

CHARTERIS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Dont. As a philosopher, it’s my business to tel...

Why mayn't they do what men do?' the Hero cried impetuously. 'I hate that contemptible narrow-minded...

The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Lov...

* *Do remember that dishonesty and cowardice always have to be paid for.*Don’t imagine that for year...

He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.

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

In 1857, Bizet departed for Rome and spent three years there. He studied the landscape, the culture,...

A court is the most depressing place on earth. Wherever there is a throne, one may observe in rich d...

Even a child could see the division between what the Galileans [i.e., Christians] say they believe a...

The malice of a true Christian attempting to destroy an opponent is something unique in the world. N...

They were so absorbed in their plotting that they did not hear Boule de Suif return. But the Comte's...

I was more at home in my father's world. People like Mr. Heck Tate did not trap you with innocent qu...

Nobody scarce doth any good, yet they all agree in praising those who do. Indeed, it is strange that...

Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

[A]n unpleasant nest of nasty, materialistic and aggressive people, careless of the rights of others...

I have noticed more than once in life that a taste for the ineffably twee can go hand-in-hand with a...

It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized...

I cannot adequately express the horror I feel for a man who can be so base as to veil his hypocrisy ...

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

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N...

For my part, I am determined never to speak of it again to anybody. I told my sister Phillips so the...

I wish to declare with all earnestness that I do not want any religious ceremonies performed for me ...

Women, for their part, are always complaining that we raise them only to be vain and coquettish, tha...

Why do you consult [women's] words when it is not their mouths that speak? Consult their eyes, their...

It's convenient how everyone who supports waterboarding and torture, or "enhanced interrogation tech...

Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of p...

Saint abroad and a devil at home.

But I knew the way the people in the town thought about things. They always had some time left over ...

One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy the only evil that walks invisible.

Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.

Is not the brand of 'double-dealer' stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder? Are not...

Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the s...

It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is white as snow. And it is sa...

The Chinese food arrives. Delicious saliva fills his mouth. He really hasn't had any since Texas. He...

Ashe was typical of that strata of mankind which conducts its human relationships according to a pri...

I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still ...

Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions

He was very religious he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing g...

Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast. There wasn't even a shed there, ...

I am stupid, am I not? What more can I want? If you ask them who is brave--who is true--who is just-...

This is neither the time nor the place, however, to ponder how often the soul, in order to be able t...

Before our "company" set off, at a wink from the officer, Plumpie stood up and proposed a search. I ...

We visited Mao's old house, which had been turned into a museum-cum-shrine. It was rather grand––qui...

God help me, how Tolstoy sweats over drying up people's sources of life, of wild and joyful life, dr...

Not in order to justify, but simply in order to explain my lack of consistency, I say: Look at my pr...

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wid...

In life, most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. All the improvisation teacher has to d...

I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to liste...

And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim...

I regard the Klan, the Anglo-Saxon clubs and White American societies, as far as the Negro is concer...

He keeps his voice kindly but remote. A cross between a pedagogue, soothsayer, and a benevolent uncl...

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

Creating some god for one's inspirations was always a good way to avoid accusations of pride should ...

Look at the tyranny of party-- at what is called party allegiance, party loyalty-- a snare invented ...

And what does it amount to?" said Satan, with his evil chuckle. "Nothing at all. You gain nothing; y...

A hypocritical businessman, whose fortune had been the misfortune of many others, told Mark Twain pi...

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade ...

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - a...

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.

What?' He cried, darting at him a look of fury: 'Dare you still implore the Eternal's mercy? Would y...

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.

Between ourselves, there are two things that I have always observed to be in singular accord: superc...

I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was ...

People who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all.

Why put yourself in charge of Heaven's cause?Does Heaven need our help to enforce its laws?

I become quite melancholy and deeply grieved to see men behave to each other as they do. Everywhere ...

We ought to punish pitilessly that shameful pretence of friendly intercourse. I like a man to be a m...

You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well known every-where in his true colo...

There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affa...

Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on ...

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises i...

It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.

All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the soci...

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it...

You deplore what I did, but you still want to know the results of my research.

Show me what you've written," I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like...

I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never sa...

I hope you have not been leading a double life pretending to be wicked and being really good all th...

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to ...

I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously wh...

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time....

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, yo...

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

Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right wi...

When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intent...

You desire the end but close your eyes to the means. You want the garden to be beautiful, provided t...

Avoid those who seek friends in order to maintain a certain social status or to open doors they woul...

And the priests looked down into the pit of injustice and they turned their faces away and said, 'Ou...

Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

That physician is no better than a murderer, that negligently delayeth till his patient be dead or p...

If thy meditation tends to fill thy note-book with notions, and good sayings, concerning God, and no...

She had an evil face, smoothed by hypocrisy; but her manners were excellent.