Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope Francis

We are all sinners. But may the Lord not let us be hypocrites. Hypocrites don’t know the meaning of forgiveness, joy and the love of God.

George MacDonald

Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.

Josh Billings

If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?

Oscar Wilde

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

John Piper

We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.

Martin Luther

I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up quagmires and to open and make straight paths. If I must have some failing let me rather speak the truth with too great sincerity than once to act the hypocrite and conceal the truth.

Martin Luther

It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.

Oswald Chambers

Take care lest you play the hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right before you worship God yourself.

Juan Williams

For me, the key is I always have to be the same person.If someone was to hear me say something on Fox and hear me say something different on NPR, they would say, 'The guy is a hypocrite.'

Joseph Sobran

The hypocrite recognizes the honest man as his deadly enemy.

Neko Case

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

Niccolo Machiavelli

It is necessary that the prince should know how to color his nature well, and how to be a hypocrite and dissembler. For men are so simple, and yield so much to immediate necessity, that the deceiver will never lack dupes.

Noam Chomsky

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

Marvin Gaye

Politics and hypocrites is turning us all into lunatics.

Oscar Wilde

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

Paris Hilton

I’m an animal activist. Many people say that I’m a hypocrite, because I eat burgers and stuff like that but I won’t wear fur. But I’m not a hypocrite. I just only wear fake fur.

Oscar Wilde

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

Ishmael Reed

[David] Mamet is another hypocrite. His idea of Black man is a pimp who abuses women, [Edmond], yet his play Oleanna [1994] ends with a White professor slapping an uppity feminist, at least the version I saw at San Francisco's ACT.

Rajneesh

Never imitate. The mind is an imitator, because imitation is very easy. To be someone is very difficult. To become someone is very easy - all that you need is to be a hypocrite, which is not much of a problem. Deep down you remain the same, but on the surface you go on painting yourself according to some image.

Shane Claiborne

As my friend said that when people say the church is full of hypocrites, he says we always have room for more.

John Milton

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

John Milton

Nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.

Nora Roberts

People who say not to speak ill of the dead are hypocrites, because you can take it ot the bank they're thinking ill.

Matthew McConaughey

Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.

Marilyn Manson

A story might sell if there's a headline like 'Marilyn Manson admits to being Satanic', all the little hypocrites will go and buy the magazine, read about what evil, weird people we are and will feel better about themselves.

Neal Stephenson

Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians were despised in the late twentieth century. Many of the persons who held such opinions were, of course, guilty of the most nefarious conduct themselves, and yet saw no paradox in holding such views because they were not hypocrites themselves-they took no moral stances and lived by none.

Lauryn Hill

Hypocrites always wanna play innocent

Laurence Sterne

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

Johnny Carson

I'm an entertainer; I try to give the public what it wants while I'm on the screen, and I'm completely sincere about it. If I don't happen to be a laughing boy off the screen, that doesn't make me a hypocrite or a phony.

Johnny Carson

People are hypocrites. If you ask them what they want to see on TV, they'll tell you they want better quality programming. And then what do they watch? 'Gilligan's Island.'

Luther Campbell

I also want to announce that I'm changing my name. I haven't told anyone. You get the scoop.

Thomas Jefferson

What has been the effect of coericion [sic]? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and errors all over the earth... [Instead] reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged; and how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse it ourselves.

Taylor Caldwell

An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.