Hypocrisy Quotes - Page 5

Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with peculiar gusto, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!

If privacy ends where hypocrisy begins, Kitty Kelley's steamy expose is a contribution to contemporary history.

It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.

What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists-whatever else they might be-might also be rational human beings ; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.

It is our hypocrisy and self-focus that drains us. When we become purpose centered, internally directed other focused and externally open, we discover energy we didn't know we had.

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.

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

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.

In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.

Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is in actual fact, and directly, perverse.

I try to photograph my own and society's hypocrisy.

I don't like hypocrisy-even in international relations.

Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.

Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy.

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

I knew then that the Christian church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out...

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Saying is one thing and doing is another; we are to consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.