Christian Quote by Saint Augustine

It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The…

— Saint Augustine

Hypocrisy is folly. It is much easier, safer, and pleasanter to be the thing which a man aims to appear, than to keep up…

— Lord David Cecil

A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a…

— William Hazlitt

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.

— Samuel Johnson

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion; and the others are those that are…

— Jonathan Edwards

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they…

— Henry David Thoreau

Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of…

— Laurence Sterne

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

— Henry David Thoreau

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.…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to…

— Hannah Arendt

Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would…

— Joseph Addison

I don't feel that men have been wrong. I don't feel that women are wrong for using their second attention to combat sexual repression.…

— Frederick Lenz