Hypocrite Quotes
298 quotes by 242 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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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!
— Charles Baudelaire
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Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.
— Milton Berle
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The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused by a lot…
— Conrad Black
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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for…
— William Blake
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My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
— Yancy Butler
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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 wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its…
— George Washington Carver
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I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool - and I'm not any of those - to say that I don't write for…
— Maya Angelou
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The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.
— Minna Antrim
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The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive…
— Thomas Adams
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I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating…
— Alan Dershowitz
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Clean your finger before you point at my spots.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it,…
— Leo Tolstoy
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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
— Oscar Wilde
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Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.
— Lord Byron
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If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
— John Milton
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