Hypocrisy Quotes · Page 17

Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see.

— Lord Byron

If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.

— Edmund Burke

“Confession of the mouth without faith in the heart is gross hypocrisy.”

— William Gurnall

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

— William Hazlitt

We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers.

— Ian Brown

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

— Oscar Wilde

You can't lead someone in a direction that you are not going yourself.

— Anonymous

“He who acquired all his wealth by *being at the right place at the right time* is hypocritical by being angry for…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The Law is supposed to keep us safe and strong and able to birth healthy children, yet the Law wants us to…

— Annette Curtis Klause

You think I have a hypocritical attitude to hypocrisy? The problem is there are 26 letters in the alphabet, and he only…

— Dr Gregory House

I think it's such utter hypocrisy that so many people in our society were obviously all watching pornography and yet we treat…

— Steve Grand

Actually, we have misdefined "hypocrisy." Hypocrisy is not the failure to practice what you preach but the failure to believe it. Hypocrisy…

— Peter Kreeft

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin,…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros…

— John Ridley

“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

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

— Charlotte Brontë

“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

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

“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

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

— Ouida

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

— Ambrose Bierce

And I think it's really easy for people to point out hypocrisy in people's lives.

— Ellen Page

What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I'm not two-faced, I'm honest, and I tell it the way it is. And I'm not good at hypocrisy, pretending to be…

— Lady Colin Campbell

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

— Richard Pryor

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

— Oscar Wilde

Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?

— Richard Bach

The problem with today's humanity is that people judge everyone else but still don't see their own mistakes.

— Anonymous

The wages that are being paid in the Premier League are very tempting. It would be hypocrisy to deny that.

— Thomas Muller

“Hypocrisy is when you get mad at a friend for telling their other friend a secret that your other friend told you.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Never judge the deeds of a starving man while you’re on a full tummy.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises

— Jeremy Griffith

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Fundamentalism only ever deepens public hypocrisy, not public morality.”

— John R. Bradley

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.

— Michel de Montaigne