Abandoned Quote by Thomas Paine

“However little you may esteem them as individuals, it is not pleasant to be looked upon as a liar and a hypocrite. To be…

— Anne Brontë

“If perchance a friend should betray you; if he forms a subtle plot to get hold of what is yours; if people should try…

— Molière

Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I have so great a contempt and detestation for meanness, that I could sooner make a friend of one who had committed murder, than…

— Laurence Sterne

Self-justification is a treacherous servant.

— Wellington Mara

The friend who holds up before me the mirror, conceals not my smallest faults, warns me kindly, reproves me affectionately, when I have not…

— Johann Gottfried Herder

In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I am a great foe of favoritism in public life, in private life, and even in the delicate relationship of an author to his…

— Joseph Conrad

He who advises you to be reserved to your friends wishes to betray you without witnesses.

— Anonymous

“It is far kinder and smarter to show someone a better path in life than to darkly follow down their's with the self-righteous belief…

— Isabella Poretsis

“One of the universally despised sins is hypocrisy, falsely pretending to hold beliefs, feelings, standards qualities, opinions, virtues, motivations, or other characteristics that a…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.

— Voltaire