Hypocrisy Quotes · Page 15

Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Achievement makes most of us blind to appreciate the path and the journey, which leaded us to achieve our goals…

— Santanu Mishra

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

— George Orwell

“Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.”

— Shannon L. Alder

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

— Margaret Deland

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

— John Milton

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

— Pope Francis

It's the lack of humanity in the human psyche that haunts me. The hypocrisy. How people as a group can take something…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let…

— Craig Ferguson

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what…

— Vivienne Westwood

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our…

— Sri Aurobindo

When my stories were translated into other languages and received good reviews in the international press and won prizes, some Arab festivals…

— Hassan Blasim

No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk…

— Mark Twain

It is the height of hypocrisy for [Hillary] Clinton to talk about being the first woman president when every single policy she…

— Carly Fiorina

Society gains nothing whilst a man, not himself renovated, attempts to renovate things around him; he has become tediously good insome particular…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The smear artist reveals himself by his disparate treatment of people and situations. He drapes himself in a superhero cape, claiming to…

— Sharyl Attkisson

People are hypocritical. That's just human nature. I embrace my hypocrisy. Once you come to grips with who you are and what's…

— Lupe Fiasco

“The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a question on terrorism and then…

— Christopher Hitchens

Good, law-abiding, value-oriented citizens are the ultimate in hypocrisy; "majority rules" and the law are exactly the same as being the biggest…

— William J. Murray

“They were so absorbed in their plotting that they did not hear Boule de Suif return. But the Comte's whispered 'shh!' made…

— Guy de Maupassant

“Here bhikkhus, some misguided men learn the Dhamma–discourses, stanzas, expositions, verses, exclamations, sayings, birth stories, marvels, and answers to questions–but having learned…

— Gautama Buddha

“What if you get a virgin (or what you call – pure) girl, and she disrespects you, has affairs outside, insults your…

— Mehek Bassi

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also…

— Carl Jung

Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

— Alexander Theroux

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

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

“When someone attempts to insult you know that they are inadvertently giving away what would insult them.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

“Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood and then mount the stump to make a speech for…

— Adlai Stevenson

In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

— Logan Pearsall Smith

America - where people get more worked up over a bicyclist's lies than a president's lies.

— Rudy Espinoza

Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Then appeared wisdom and shrewdness, and there ensued great hypocrisy.”

— Lao Tzu

Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.

— Ana Navarro

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

— Hannah Arendt

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“He who does not believe and yet follows the rituals teaches his children to be hypocrits (From: Kinderpraat)”

— A.J. Beirens

Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.

— John Calvin

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

— Francois Rabelais