Hypocrisy Quotes

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We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together, and considered what… — John Selden
In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. — Hannah Arendt
Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both. — William Hazlitt
It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making… — Max Beerbohm
Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself. — Victor Hugo
He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat. — Michael Chabon
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us. — Ben Jonson
I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love. — Unknown Author
We are not hypocrites in our sleep. — William Hazlitt
The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If you prefer illusions to realities, it is only because all decent realities have eluded you and left you in the lurch; or else your… — George Santayana
A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that… — Thomas Jefferson
Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste. — George Bernard Shaw
The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success. — Robert Green Ingersoll
There is so much hypocrisy in sports. — Dennis Rodman
Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art. — Mason Cooley
You want to mess up the minds of your children? Here's how - guaranteed! Rear them in a legalistic, tight context of external religion, where… — Charles R. Swindoll

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