Hypocrisy Quote by Honore de Balzac Download Open image “Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.” — Honore de Balzac ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hypocrisy Manners
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
Manners are made up of trivialities of deportment which can be easily learned if one does not happen to know them. — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred. — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine. — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“Oh, my friend, when you love, love a woman whom you are sure that you can love always. Never forsake a woman.” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“You have broken the ice, though you have not even scratched its glossy surface: you have placed your hand upon the croup of the… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is quite right what they say: the three most beautiful sights in the world are a ship in full sail, a galloping horse,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A married woman is a slave you must know how to seat upon a throne. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Rich men are resolved to be astonished at nothing. When they see a masterpiece, they must needs at one glance recognize some flaw to… — Honore de Balzac 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
White and shining virgin of all human virtues, ark of the covenant between earth and heaven, tender and strong companion partaking of the lion… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive… — Honore de Balzac 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