Hypocrisy Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld Download Open image “The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hypocrisy Inspirational Quality Ridiculous
We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's through our unique flaws that our individuality can be expressed. — David Trumble Copy Share Image
By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but our reconsideration. — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things. — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
The only thing we have in this world that is utterly and intrinsically ours is our integrity. — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
“When principles are so absurd and so destructive of human society, it may safely be averred, that the more sincere and the more disinterested… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Our attitudes, our perspectives, our ways of relating to others, our methods of responding to the circumstances of the world around us, our self-image,… — M. Robert Mulholland Jr Copy Share Image
Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.” — François de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The intention of never deceiving often exposes us to deception. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Everybody should read 'Slaughterhouse-Five' by Kurt Vonnegut. This book is about the hypocrisy of war, told in satire, and is hard-hitting and truthful. — Kalki Koechlin Copy Share Image
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“In all, the future secretary of defense and wartime vice president[, Dick Cheney,] would receive five deferments during the Vietnam War, protecting him from… — Charlie Savage Copy Share Image
“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Bigoted people are just scholars who lack any sort of legitimate credentials to answer why they're bigoted. — Doctavius Copy Share Image
The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Mayor De Blasio's appointment of Bill Bratton as police commissioner is the height of hypocrisy. Asking Bratton to stop racial profiling and stop and… — Charles Barron Copy Share Image
It's about time Hypocrisy should be adopted as a religion, considering it's got more followers than any other religion on this planet. — Ashutosh Cheulkar Copy Share Image
I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love. — Ovid Copy Share Image
One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
