Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Russell Lowell

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

Laurence Sterne

There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

Malcolm X

You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy.

John Adams

If the empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should be over-thrown with it, what advantage will be gained?

Luc de Clapiers

If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply; I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong.

Lord Byron

Be hypocritical, be cautious, be not what you seem but always what you see.

Sarah Silverman

We don't live in a democracy; we live in a hypocrisy.

Robin Williams

For me, comedy starts as a spew, a kind of explosion, and then you sculpt it from there, if at all. It comes out of a deeper, darker side. Maybe it comes from anger, because I'm outraged by cruel absurdities, the hypocrisy that exists everywhere, even within yourself, where it's hardest to see.

Thomas Piketty

No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest.

Richard Pryor

There's a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back underground.

Samuel Johnson

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy.

Voltaire

Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.

Winston Churchill

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

William Hazlitt

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.

Vivienne Westwood

When I first saw a picture of the crucifixion, I lost respect for my parents. I suddenly realised that this is what the adult world is like - full of cruelty and hypocrisy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

Samuel Johnson

Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy, affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly; the one completes a villain, the other only finishes a fop.

Remy de Gourmont

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a false sorrow.

Victor Hugo

How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.

Victor Hugo

To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

Victor Hugo

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

Richard Bach

Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs?

Susan Sontag

One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith ...

Reinhold Niebuhr

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

Robert Green Ingersoll

There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been a hater of demonstration; hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsistent with mental freedom.

Sri Aurobindo

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.