Hypocrisy Quotes · Page 18

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

— Edmund Burke

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

— KRS-One

“When you turn your back on hypocrisy and do nothing you don’t change the hearts of others you change yours.”

— Shannon Alder

[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

— Charles Dickens

This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.

— Pete Seeger

Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.

— Quintilian

“He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn’t smile when they say that he rocks.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.

— Shams Tabrizi

“Unlike the uneducated Christian followers from centuries ago, the typical Christian today has a particularly high level of suspicion of organized religion,…

— Scott S. Haraburda

The manifestation of the disease of fear is anger, hate, sadness, envy, and hypocrisy; the result of the disease is all the…

— Anonymous

It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the…

— Henry Miller

I'm a part of the system now and I am helping people within that system and, so, it would be hypocrisy to…

— Isaac Wright Jr

anyone own a disease? I was also startled at the level of hypocrisy. How can a leading make up company not sign…

— Ravida Din

Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness…

— John Calvin

People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but…

— Democritus

If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch;…

— George Santayana

Four characteristics constitute anyone who possesses them a sheer hypocrite, and anyone who possesses one of them possesses a characteristic of hypocrisy…

— Elijah Muhammad

“As a rough rule, it seems that writers fall into two camps. There are those who delight in rousting the truth from…

— Will Blythe

I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a "surly, illmannered, badtempered fellow." ... Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely…

— Edward Abbey

The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching…

— Max Stirner

As an immigrant, I truly believed when I was coming to this country that people had the tools necessary to life to…

— Ilhan Omar

“The Great Stone at the center of the Somme memorial has this inscription: “Their name liveth for evermore.” The memorial contains 73,077…

— Nel Noddings

Take a look at the police and how they treat you, Take a look at these corporations that cheat you. Democrats and…

— KRS-One

There is no heaven and there is no hell. They are not geographical, they are part of your psychology. They are psychological.…

— Rajneesh

Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil. Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.

— William Shakespeare

“Don't pound your chest when it's all good, then blame God when it's all bad.”

— T.F. Hodge

Hypocrisy annoys me, people need to look into mirrors. Let me hold a mirror in front of your face

— C. JoyBell C

“Hypocrisy a homage is true, That vice pays to virtue, Be man - himself so true, That no false does he brew.”

— Munindra Misra

“The faith of a religious hypocrite can only be increased through backbiting!”

— Fahad Basheer

If a man must make himself appear cheerful; he must know why he is miserable.

— Al Smith

“People who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all.”

— Milan Kundera

Moliere exaggerates common vices of mankind: lust, greed, misanthropy, hypocrisy. We all have a touch of these.

— Dakin Matthews

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't like hypocrisy, I don't like double standards, it's probably why i'm vegan.

— Austin Aries

Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Anonymous

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Ian Brown

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

— William Hazlitt

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

— William Gurnall