In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“He who does not believe and yet follows the rituals teaches his children to be hypocrits (From: Kinderpraat)” — A.J. Beirens Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
If you REALLY want to know how a guy will treat you, look at how he treats his mom, sister, grandma, boss,… — Cynthia Silva Copy Share Image
A good example brings about so much good, but hypocrisy brings about so much evil. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
“True saddness is when someone still thinks your the same person after all these years. They brand you because of their own… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Compassion is a lifetime business. You can't say something like, "I will have compassion on Monday, Thursdays and Fridays only. But for… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“To believe in God is a good thing, a right thing. But when you reinforce your belief with words you take from… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
At a time when we are pleading with foreign governments to stop the export of cocaine, it is the height of hypocrisy… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
“he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Nowadays, by contrast, Christianity specialises in soft-focus mood music; its threats of hell, its demand for poverty and chastity, its doctrine that… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These in pace, these dungeons, these iron hinges, these necklets, that lofty… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There's this idea that to live out of conformity with how I feel is hypocrisy; but that's a wrong definition of hypocrisy.… — Erik Thoennes Copy Share Image
“[Women] complain about many clerks who attribute all sorts of faults to them and who compose works about them in rhyme, prose,… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“That's the trouble with the world we live in, Dana. It's full of people just doing their job and ignoring what's really… — Robert Muchamore Copy Share Image
“Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
I really embrace my hypocrisy. I embrace that because after I do that, I can move on; I can try and go… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire. — Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand Copy Share Image