"Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but…" — Judith Martin
"Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue."
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83 Quotes by Judith Martin
Judith Martin has 83 quotes on this site.
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Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers.
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A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.
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She only maintains that it is possible, under some circumstances, for a lady to murder her husband; but that a…
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A small wedding is not necessarily one to which very few people are invited. It is one to which the…
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The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration,…
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You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.
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If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.
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You do not have to do everything disagreeable that you have a right to do
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Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards
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Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and…
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Allowing an unimportant mistake to pass without comment is a wonderful social grace.
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It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and…
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More Hypocrisy Quotes
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite…
— Hannah Arendt
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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
— Honore de Balzac
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When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows…
— Enid Bagnold
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
— Jane Addams
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Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
— Ambrose Bierce
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
— Edmund Burke
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In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
— Lord Byron
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There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you…
— Lewis Carroll
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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…
— Benjamin Carson
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
— Fidel Castro
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Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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