Quotes and Sayings About Hypocrisy
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
-- A. E. Housman -
No human is perfect; we all have our hidden sins. Hypocrisy is to delude yourself into denying your own sins and allow arrogance to grow within you.
-- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi -
Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
-- Ada Leverson -
Most worshippers of God are intent on the advancement of their own destiny, not on His worship. In India, no one has ever claimed to be a prophet. The reason is that claims to divinity are customary.
-- Akbar -
If a man must make himself appear cheerful; he must know why he is miserable.
-- Al Smith -
Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.
-- Alan Dershowitz -
I know [my label], in any case: a double face, a charming Janus, and underneath, the house motto: "Be wary". On my business cards:"Jean-Baptiste Clamence, actor".
-- Albert Camus -
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice and wrong pay to virtue and justice .
-- Albert Pike -
Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.
-- Aldous Huxley -
If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.
-- Aldous Huxley -
That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
-- Alexander Pope -
Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.
-- Alexander Theroux -
He has given ample evidence of qualities hardly any other living statesman has demonstrated to the same degree: the courage to look facts in the face and to seek flexible solutions, respect for others, give-and-take in dialog situations, absence of hypocrisy, a complete absence of grandeur in the conduct of his personal life. He has never been driven by blind self-assertion to make absurd decisions.
-- Alice Miller -
Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.
-- Amelia Earhart -
One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
-- Anais Nin -
The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.
-- Anais Nin -
Hypocrisy is a revolting, psychopathic state.
-- Anton Chekhov -
I knew then that the Christian Church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out!
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
I found Mr. Carter's actions toward the Republic of China so incredible that they defy description by socially acceptable expletives. If December 7, 1941 was a "day of infamy" then December 15, 1978 ranks right up there in international betrayal...The pathetic thing about this whole mess, however, is that it is typical of this administration's conduct of foreign affairs, which could be kindly described as being riddled by ineptitude and hypocrisy.
-- Barry Goldwater -
When I saw corruption, I was forced to find truth on my own. I couldn't swallow the hypocrisy.
-- Barry White -
Unfortunately, in seeing ourselves as we truly are, not all that we see is beautiful and attractive. This is undoubtedly part of the reason we flee silence. We do not want to be confronted with our hypocrisy, our phoniness. We see how false and fragile is the false self we project. We have to go through this painful experience to come to our true self.
-- Basil Pennington -
It holds for good polity ever, to have that outwardly in vilest estimation, which inwardly is most dear to us.
-- Ben Jonson -
As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.
-- Ben Mendelsohn -
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.
-- Ben Stein -
A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Posterity will do justice to that unprincipled maniac Gladstone - extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition; and with one commanding characteristic - whether Prime Minister or Leader of the Opposition, whether preaching, praying, speechifying or scribbling - never a gentleman.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
It is hypocrisy for man to make any other use of his religion, or the credit of it, than to sanctify and save his soul.
-- Benjamin Whichcote
