Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Eliot

I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove.

Christine Keeler

Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.

Ethel Waters

There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

George Bernard Shaw

Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

George Bernard Shaw

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

Frederick William Robertson

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

Carly Fiorina

It is the height of hypocrisy for [Hillary] Clinton to talk about being the first woman president when every single policy she espouses and every single policy of President [Barack] Obama has been demonstrably bad for women.

James Herbert

Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.

Kirby Dick

What I don't understand is how a policy against outing trumps a policy of reporting. Whenever you're reporting on hypocrisy, you're kind of 'outing' something to begin with.

Mary Baker Eddy

Hypocrisy is fatal to religion.

Mark McKinnon

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

Mo Rocca

Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.

Rajneesh

My function here is to destroy all hypocrisy in you.

Michel Foucault

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.

Marie Corelli

A criminal is twice a criminal when he adds hypocrisy to his crime.

Mark Twain

Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.

Julia Phillips

Reagan and Bush... made the world safe for hypocrisy.

Oswald Chambers

The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality.

Oscar Wilde

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

Oliver Goldsmith

Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.

Miuccia Prada

This is an example of hypocrisy

R. C. Sproul

The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves.

Hosea Ballou

Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.

Francois Rabelais

An old monkey never makes a pretty face.

Francois Rabelais

Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.

Henry David Thoreau

Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.

Frances Wright

it is not that religion is merely useless, it is mischievous. It is mischievous by its idle terrors; it is mischievous by its false morality; it is mischievous by its hypocrisy; by its fanaticism; by its dogmatism; by its threats; by its hopes; by its promises.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Franz Grillparzer

What's the meaning of all the pious clamor, condemning cocks and hens? Those who have no teeth are the greatest meat-haters.

Jewel

Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

Frederick Douglass

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.

Georges Bernanos

God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?

Honore de Balzac

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.