Hypocrisy Quotes
534 quotes by 399 authors
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the…
— Hannah Arendt
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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
— Honore de Balzac
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When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.
— Enid Bagnold
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
— Jane Addams
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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
— Ambrose Bierce
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
— Edmund Burke
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In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
— Lord Byron
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There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
— Lewis Carroll
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Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.
— Benjamin Carson
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
— Fidel Castro
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Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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No crime is so great as daring to excel.
— Winston Churchill
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Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because…
— Dennis Wholey
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What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The intention makes the crime.
— Aristotle
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
— Earl Warren
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More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.
— Robert Smith Surtees
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Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire.
— Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
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If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare.
— William Arnot
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