Hypocrisy Quotations | Page 5

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

Celebration of Independence Day with great pomp and show was quite appropriate when we were fighting for independence which we had neither seen nor handled. Now we have handled it and we seem to be disillusioned. At least - I am, even if you are not. What are we celebrating today? Surely, not our disillusionment.

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color....

The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot, or whatever they want to do, then we're never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it's none of their business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren't, there would be peace.

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.

I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words.

In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.

I hate a woman who offers herself because she ought to do so, and cold and dry thinks of her sewing when making love.

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

A good example brings about so much good, but hypocrisy brings about so much evil.

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds.

A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.

Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms.

Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness.

To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.

Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?

The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.

Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion.

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of highest rationality, makes hypocrisy an inevitable by product of all virtuous endeavor.

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

As if the world and they were hand and glove.

It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.

Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly.

Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.

The Bishop has a skin, God knows, Wrinkled like the foot of a goose, (All find safety in the tomb.) Nor can he hide in holy black The heron's hunch upon his back, But a birch-tree stood my Jack....

Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.