Hypocrisy Quotes - Page 8

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

It's always easier to spot others' hypocrisies while missing our own.

That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.

False friends leave you in times of trouble.

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.

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.

How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.

I think it's such utter hypocrisy that so many people in our society were obviously all watching pornography and yet we treat these people [actors] like they're sub-human. I think it's just disgusting.

He (Thomas Paine) saw oppression on every hand; injustice everywhere; hypocrisy at the altar; venality on the bench, tyranny on the throne; and with a splendid courage he espoused the cause of the weak against the strong

Fear is a dagger with which hypocrisy assassinates the soul.

The heart knows nothing of the past, nothing of the future; it knows only of the present.

It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.

Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.

I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.

A saint abroad, and a devil at home.

The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face.

Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation.

I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.

You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.

Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor".

Many among men are they who set high the show of honor, yet break justice.