Hypocrisy Quotes
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- A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could. ~ William Hazlitt
- All humans are hypocrites; the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy.~ Peter Wastholm
- And why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? ~ The Holy Bible
- Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is. ~ Rebecca West
- Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite.~ Author Unknown
- Clean your finger before you point at my spots.~ Benjamin Franklin
- Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation. ~ Iskander Mirza
- Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.~ Christine Keeler
- How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say. ~ Oscar Wilde
- Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. ~ Edmund Burke
- Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised. ~ Count Leo Tolstoy
- Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pays to virtue.~ Indian Proverb
- Hypocrisy is great fodder for comedy.~ Mo Rocca
- Hypocrisy is not generally a social sin, but a virtue. ~ Judith Martin
- Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging. ~ Alexander Theroux
- Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job. ~ W. Somerset Maugham
- Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.~ Mason Cooley
- Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.~ Jose Marti
- Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.~ Jean Kerr
- Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.~ Honore de Balzac
- Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness. ~ Stendhal
- Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy. ~ Author Unknown
- No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.~ Bernard Mandeville
- Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. ~ Ambrose Bierce
- Reagan and Bush… made the world safe for hypocrisy.~ Julia Phillips
- The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite! ~ Tennessee Williams
- The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. ~ William Hazlitt
- There’s no hypocrisy in Hell’s Kitchen. ~ Ethel Waters
- There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. ~ Frederick William Robertson
- The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. ~ Oscar Wilde
- We are not hypocrites in our sleep. ~ William Hazlitt
- We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
- With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.~ Arthur Schopenhauer
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