Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Byron

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

Gail Carriger

Alexia abhorred hypocrisy, especially when munitions were involved.

Joseph Goebbels

Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.

Josh Billings

Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.

Josh Billings

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

Oscar Wilde

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

Lord Byron

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

Julia Phillips

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

Oswald Chambers

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

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.

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.

Oliver Goldsmith

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

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.

Mary Baker Eddy

Hypocrisy is fatal to religion.

Mark McKinnon

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

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.

Michael Kinsley

If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.

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.

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.

Norm MacDonald

Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.

Jonah Goldberg

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

Remy de Gourmont

Modesty is the delicate form of hypocrisy.

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.

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.

Sarah Silverman

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

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.