Hypocrisy Quotes
534 Hypocrisy quotes by 382 unique authors
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The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
— James Russell Lowell
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People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
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Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
— Moliere
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Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.
— Josh Billings
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Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us…
— Laurence Sterne
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Stand up to hypocrisy. If you don't, the hypocrites will teach. Stand up to ignorance, because if you don't, the ignorant will run free to…
— Suzy Kassem
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Like no other writer in contemporary American literature, Brock Clarke has a way of looking at us, I mean looking straight at us--warts, lots of…
— Peter Orner
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Judging other people is such a natural and reflex phenomenon that even when somebody advises everybody not to judge anybody, actually he never realised that…
— Unknown Author
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Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make…
— Aldous Huxley
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Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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He has given ample evidence of qualities hardly any other living statesman has demonstrated to the same degree: the courage to look facts in the…
— Alice Miller
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Of lies, false modesty is the most decent.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.
— Finley Peter Dunne
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Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into…
— E. M. Forster
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