Hypocrisy Quotes

534 Hypocrisy quotes by 382 unique authors

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
Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy. — Mo Rocca
Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue. — Judith Martin
The inconsistency of the institution of domestic slavery with the principles of the Declaration of Independence was seen and lamented . . . no insincerity… — John Quincy Adams
The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or… — Thomas Paine
Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty. — Raisa Gorbacheva
The disappearance of your person is not your disappearance, remember; on the contrary, it is your appearance. As your person disappears, your personality falls away;… — Rajneesh
It is our hypocrisy and self-focus that drains us. When we become purpose centered, internally directed other focused and externally open, we discover energy we… — Robert E. Quinn
The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers,… — Unknown Author
If a man must make himself appear cheerful; he must know why he is miserable. — Al Smith
The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation. — Unknown Author
Reagan and Bush... made the world safe for hypocrisy. — Julia Phillips
We cannot by ourselves reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world, but we are doing what has to be done all over the… — David Lange
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he bears false… — Hannah Arendt
They are constantly trying to drive us into a corner because we have an independent position, because we maintain it and because we tell it… — Vladimir Putin

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