Hypocrisy Quotes · Page 18

The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts.

— Anatole France

“They will call you immoral if you dare to describe their immorality”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.

— Aeschylus

Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt,…

— Lord Byron

It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.

— Christina Stead

“Men without honor cannot build an honorable country. It is height of hypocrisy to expect a country of equity from such men.”

— Olawale Daniel

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

— Bill Pullman

I wish I had a man and not a dishrag printed over with big words like 'constitutional rights' and 'progress'!

— Christina Stead

“In all, the future secretary of defense and wartime vice president[, Dick Cheney,] would receive five deferments during the Vietnam War, protecting…

— Charlie Savage

“He'd always liked women who'd talk back to him just a little bit. "Girls with balls" were good. Women with an actual…

— Warren Ellis

Both Conservative and Labour politicians in Britain are rather too fond of praising the relative 'classlessness' of American society and of urging…

— Linda Colley

Without a doubt. It's woven into our DNA in a very deep way and so to kind of be smacked in the…

— Bill Ayers

With respect to teaching, I couldn't make sense of mainstream economics when I had to teach it to college students. At the…

— Michael Yates

If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun…

— Malcolm X

“You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well-known everywhere in his true colors; his rolling eyes and his…

— Molière

If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in…

— Jonathan Edwards

“Ashe was typical of that strata of mankind which conducts its human relationships according to a principle of challenge and response. Where…

— John le Carré

“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding…

— Benjamin Disraeli

[On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his…

— Ouida

“But I am scared. Everybody's scared." "You know what I mean, like scared scared. Like coward scared, like if you never went…

— Ben Fountain

Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to…

— Henry Fielding

“I couldn't tell anyone how I felt because I knew they wouldn't understand. Oh, poor little Christina, falling for the bad man…

— Nenia Campbell

“Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive that you…

— Charlotte Brontë

Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.

— Friedrich Schiller

“Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.”

— Shannon L. Alder

It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.

— Ben Jonson

I hate when people say they hate someone, then they go and hangout with them.

— Anonymous

It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.

— Finley Peter Dunne

It's the hypocrisy of people that makes me question the modern idea of the right state of mind.

— Derek Queen

“Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.”

— Idries Shah

Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.

— Michael Leunig

“We preach FREEDOM, not silenced slavery. Stop being a hypocritical element. Do to others what you can accept yourself.”

— Olawale Daniel

Now A Days Morons Are Quoting: Being Single Is My Attitute Actually They're Helpless.

— NizamShahbaaz

I've never been on good terms with God, but now I'm becoming His intimate, for He is truly absolute and extremely legitimate.

— Franz Grillparzer

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

— Michael Kinsley

Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

— Edmund Burke

Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.

— Jeremy Taylor

It's just hypocrisy on hip-hop's part to cry racial profiling when your race is on TV acting like fools.

— KRS-One