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.

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.

Edgar Friedenberg

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

Charles Lamb

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

Bernard of Clairvaux

He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.

Anton Chekhov

Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.

Arundhati Roy

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.

Charles Spurgeon

Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy.

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.

Ben Jonson

It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.

Lizz Winstead

I do a lot of reading of news so I can be smarter, and I do a lot of watching TV news so I can know why Americans aren't very smart. Then I can point out the hypocrisy of politicians or the media.

William Shakespeare

Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.

Albert Pike

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .

A. J. Liebling

My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.

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.

Alan Dershowitz

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

Edmund Burke

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

Albert Camus

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".

D. H. Lawrence

Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.

David Foster Wallace

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.

Ambrose Bierce

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

Aesop

False friends leave you in times of trouble.

Doc Holliday

It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds.

Doc Holliday

My hypocrisy only goes so far.

William Hazlitt

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves

Orson Scott Card

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.

Bill Cosby

When you become senile, you won't know it.

James Laver

Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies.

John Calvin

Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.

Jose Padilha

Either you look back and deal with your hypocrisy, or you dismiss it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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