“It isn't enough that the bad guy is prevented from doing his bad deeds; he must suffer as much as possible. It… — M.E. Thomas Copy Share Image
Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure. — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
“But it’s a pretense, it’s artificial,” Adelia protested. “Love, honor, respect. When are they ever extended to everyday women? I doubt if… — Ariana Franklin Copy Share Image
The disappearance of your person is not your disappearance, remember; on the contrary, it is your appearance. As your person disappears, your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wickedness is now such that… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Do you call yourselves Christians? Does then the religion of Him whom you call your Savior inspire your spirit, and guide your… — Joseph Brant Copy Share Image
“Nowhere in the bible did it say, “Only show compassion and empathy to those you can trust.” If we did that, we… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Some people say, “Once you learn to be happy, you won't tolerate being around people who make you feel anything less.” My… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Criticism is hypocrisy; society is hypocrisy. I'm a tourist. I'm a consumer. I do the things that I photograph and can be… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are… — Rafael Sabatini Copy Share Image
The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a… — Jonathan Shapiro Copy Share Image
When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
when a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it. — Laetitia Pilkington Copy Share Image
As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. Let not your right hand… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Hmmmm, one moment you are thanking God for your many blessings and the next you are cursing someone out. One moment you… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
“If thou readest the Scripture," said the Jewess, "and the lives of the saints, only to justify thine own license and profligacy,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image