Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

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.

Janet Malcolm

[Y]ou never come right out and admit you have stretched the rules for your own benefit. You do it and shut up about it, and hope you don't get caught, because if you are caught no one or no one who has any sense will come forward and say he has done the same thing himself.

Charles Lamb

To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

Edmund Burke

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Bernard of Clairvaux

He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.

Craig Ferguson

I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you.

Charles Spurgeon

Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy.

Charles Krauthammer

Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.

Bill Pullman

Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy.

Alan Moore

I did it thirty-five minutes ago.

Ed Westwick

'Villain' is such a harsh word.

Ruth Rendell

I don't choose my villains and heroes for political reasons.

Alfred Molina

I love playing villains.

Alexander Pope

The villain's censure is extorted praise.

Alex O'Loughlin

I like playing the villain.

Angelina Jolie

I guess that I've always wanted to be a Bond villain.

Cassandra Clare

There have always been readers throughout history who have been drawn to villains.

Judd Nelson

I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.

Carol Moseley Braun

I've always maintained that black people and women suffer from a presumption of incompetence. The burdens of proof are different. It just gets so tiresome.

Heather Logan

We have solid scientific evidence that screening through an organized program can reduce cancer deaths and, in some cases, even the incidence of certain cancers. Existing cancer screening has helped reduce the cancer toll in Canada. However, we need to do more to make the most of this opportunity, which has the potential to significantly reduce the cancer burden in this country.

Stephan Pastis

I never feel burdened or overwhelmed by my work. People tell you to find something you love for a career, and I have. That makes me feel very lucky.

Brandi Carlile

Bear the burdens of others, but don't put them in your pocket too.

Terri Blackstock

There's nothing heavier than the weight of sin in our lives. It's crushing. What a luxury to know the burden of it can be lifted off our shoulders if we repent and give it to God.

Cheryl Richardson

There is nothing heavier than the burden of potential

Brian Armstrong

We started out with a 'no.' This is not going to change. We had the burden of proving to them this was a good decision to make.

Brandon Lee

You only have the burdens on you that you choose to put there.

Shinzo Abe

We are talking in the Japan-US negotiations about maintaining the deterrent and reducing local burdens as a whole.