One who, professing virtues that he does not respect…

“Freedom requires virtues it does not produce and may even help undermine.”

— Michael Gerson

If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?

— Josh Billings

A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

— William Hazlitt

Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.

— Ambrose Bierce

HYPOCRITE, n. One who, profession virtues that he does not respect secures the advantage of seeming to be what he depises.

— Ambrose Bierce

If every hypocrite in the United States were to break his leg to-day the country could be successfully invaded to-morrow by the warlike hypocrites…

— Ambrose Bierce

Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the…

— Ambrose Bierce

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

— Hippocrates

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

— Anonymous

“My mother despises what can never truly be done so she does not care for cooking or cleaning.”

— Faith Shearin

“He who despises simplicity will shout for a simple lifebuoy when drowning in the ocean of complexity!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.

— Bill Vaughan

Anna despises two classes of people: first, those who own their own homes and have cars and families, and second, everybody else. Constantly she…

— Elfriede Jelinek

Hollywood does not understand Middle America, and it certainly does not understand and, in fact, despises, the core values of the country.

— Steve Bannon

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer…

— Jim Bishop