Top 100 Quotes About Hypocrisy
#1. Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.
Theodore Roosevelt
#2. We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're willing to call one another bad ones. We call meanness nobility and hatred honor. The way to make yourself a hero is to make me out a scoundrel. You won't admit that either, but it's true.
Thomas Wolfe
#3. That character in conversation which commonly passes for agreeable is made up of civility and falsehood.
Alexander Pope
#4. We fixate on sins of commission: Don't do this, don't do that - and you're OK. But that is holiness by subtraction. And it's more hypocrisy than holiness! It's the sins of omission - what you would have, could have, and should have done - that break the heart of your heavenly Father.
Mark Batterson
#5. Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don't let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you're part of the crowd that will move on to the next fashion that comes around.
Criss Jami
#7. When my stories were translated into other languages and received good reviews in the international press and won prizes, some Arab festivals and newspapers began to take an interest in what I had produced. This sudden Arab interest is a form of hypocrisy and nonsense.
Hassan Blasim
#9. I knew then that the Christian Church thrives on hypocrisy, and that man's carnal nature will out!
Anton Szandor LaVey
#10. He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with peculiar gusto, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!
Emily Bronte
#11. When people don't respect one another seldom is there honesty.
Shannon L. Alder
#12. I don't lie and cheat, but I don't always avoid actions that would be lying and cheating if someone else did them.
Robert Breault
#13. It is hypocrisy alone that leads men to be careless about themselves, [240] and haughtily to despise others.
John Calvin
#14. He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn't smile when they say that he rocks.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#16. I lay aside the papers. Really, it is beyond hypocrisy; it is beyond even lying: it has become a psychosis.
Robert Harris
#17. Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.
Mark Twain
#18. Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
Hosea Ballou
#19. Why put yourself in charge of Heaven's cause?
Does Heaven need our help to enforce its laws?
Moliere
#20. Those who are not with Mr. Bush are against him. Worse, they are with the enemy. Which is odd, because I'm dead against Bush, but I would love to see Saddam's downfall
just not on Bush's terms and not by his methods. And not under the banner of such outrageous hypocrisy.
John Le Carre
#21. [A]n unpleasant nest of nasty, materialistic and aggressive people, careless of the rights of others, imperfectly democratic at home though quick to see the minor slaveries of others, and greedy without end.
Isaac Asimov
#22. When thou shewest Respect to any one, see that thy Submissions be proportionable to the Homage thou owest him. There is Stupidity and Pride in doing too little; but in over acting of it, there is Abjection and Hypocrisy.
Max Frisch
#23. God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?
Georges Bernanos
#24. You desire the end but close your eyes to the means. You want the garden to be beautiful, provided that the smell of manure is kept well away from your fastidious nose.
P.D. James
#25. That was the worst kind of hypocrisy, right? Hating someone for something you hated about yourself?
Brigid Kemmerer
#26. There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for His people to make a showpiece of Him and not to use Him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#27. In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#28. English is the language of a people ho have probably earned their reputation for perfidy and hypocrisy because their language itself is so flexible, so often light-headed with with statements which appear to mean one thing one year and quite a different thing the next.
Paul Scott
#29. We ought to punish pitilessly that shameful pretence of friendly intercourse. I like a man to be a man, and to show on all occasions the bottom of his heart in his discourse. Let that be the thing to speak, and never let our feelings be beneath vain compliments
Moliere
#30. Marriage and family are only what we make of them. Without that they're just a nest of hypocrisy. Garbage and empty words. But if there is real love, of the sort one doesn't go around telling everyone about, the sort that is felt and lived ...
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#32. Man is nothing but insincerity, falsehood, and hypocrisy, both in regard to himself and in regard to others. He does not wish that he should be told the truth, he shuns saying it to others; and all these moods, so inconsistent with justice and reason, have their roots in his heart.
Blaise Pascal
#33. Our poor world aspires simply to point out where Christians have gone wrong, and that is pretty much where it goes wrong. It is as though many of us, when of the world, are actually all the more judgmental: for we are stuck on a bad Christian while the Christian is pinned to a good Christ.
Criss Jami
#34. What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It's having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want.
Bob Barr
#35. The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#36. Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.
Alexander Theroux
#37. Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
Virginia Woolf
#39. Amin is the shame of the whole world. The fact that he managed to rule so long and commit so many crimes was only possible thanks to the hypocrisy of the East and the West who were waging the Cold War for world domination.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#40. The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done such a marvelous job of debasing marriage on their own all these many years.
John Ridley
#41. Indeed, said the monk, a mass, a matins, and vespers well rung are half-said.
Francois Rabelais
#42. Not one of the learned gentlemen who pretend that the Mosaic laws are filled with justice and intelligence, would live, for a moment, in any country where such laws were in force.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#43. 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.
Luc De Clapiers
#45. Good, law-abiding, value-oriented citizens are the ultimate in hypocrisy; "majority rules" and the law are exactly the same as being the biggest bully on the block with the biggest stick-it is only might that allows one group to force another to live by its code of conduct ...
William J. Murray
#46. They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.
Wilbur Smith
#48. To how much envy and fraud and hypocrisy the state of a tyrannous king is subject unto, and how they who are commonly called [Eupatridas Gk.], i.e. nobly born, are in some sort incapable, or void of natural affection.
Marcus Aurelius
#49. Today's zealots are mostly those pretending to be anti-religious.
Criss Jami
#50. I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
Oscar Wilde
#51. To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.
Leonard Peikoff
#52. Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.
Alan Dershowitz
#54. It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.
G.K. Chesterton
#55. Cheating is pure hypocrisy. Our partner deserves better than that. If we don't love someone, we should not be with them. That would also be hypocrisy.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#56. Hypocrisy seemed to be the fashionable equivalent of propriety, discretion indistinguishable from morality, and the
Loretta Chase
#57. In the presence of an overwhelming sincerity on the part of the disinherited, the dominant themselves are caught with no defense [ ... ] They are thrown back upon themselves for their rating.
Howard Thurman
#60. It is our hypocrisy and self-focus that drains us. When we become purpose centered, internally directed other focused and externally open, we discover energy we didn't know we had.
Robert E. Quinn
#61. Calamity with us, is made an excuse for doing wrong. With them, it is erected into a reason for their doing right. This is really the justice of rich to poor, and I protest against it because it is so.
Charles Dickens
#62. Be not intimidated ... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.
John Adams
#63. Hypocrissist: A narcissist who has their head so far up their ass they can't hear the hypocrisy coming out of their mouth.
Joel McDonald
#64. 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.
Robin Williams
#65. What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?
Moliere
#66. 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.
Samuel Johnson
#68. We need democracy and meritocracy, not mockracy and hypocrisy.
TheKeyAuthor
#69. Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.
Gretchen Rubin
#70. I reject any pretence at kindness you have the hypocrisy to offer.
Emily Bronte
#71. Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.
Criss Jami
#72. Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.
Oliver Goldsmith
#73. Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _to do_. Action _may_ be hypocrisy, but being is the thing itself, and is the parent of action.
George MacDonald
#74. Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.
Charles Studd
#75. And this hypocrisy found I worst amongst them, that even those who command feign the virtues of those who serve.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#76. Forgetting, along with hypocrisy, were, to him, the necessary arts central to living.
Hanif Kureishi
#77. The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays
Francis Bacon
#78. It is not uncommon to charge the difference between promise and performance, between profession and reality, upon deep design and studied deceit; but the truth is, that there is very little hypocrisy in the world.
Samuel Johnson
#79. What I object to in Mother is that she wants me to think her thoughts. Apart from the question of hypocrisy, I prefer my own.
Margaret Deland
#80. It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.
Edgar Friedenberg
#81. Tolerance level of each one changes as per situation - Is it Hypocrisy ?
Adil Adam Memon
#82. The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.
Max Stirner
#83. Just as Napoleon was the sole authority in the state, so the husband and father was to exercise authority over his family. Unfortunately the only possible result of despotism on either level is hypocrisy.
J. Christopher Herold
#85. When a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it.
Laetitia Pilkington
#86. Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.
Antonya Nelson
#87. The interesting thing about Sherlock is that he is himself a reflection of that very English duality. As a drug addict, he is a criminal. But he is also a crime fighter. That makes him an extremely potent character to personify the hypocrisy of a culture that is both moralistic and corrupt.
Rupert Everett
#88. To cling to the past is hypocrisy, because no one knows those moments.
Heinrich Boll
#89. The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.
George Bernard Shaw
#90. He seemed evidently more fond of controversy than of truth, and the whole turn of his conversation indicated that he derived his religious security rather from the adoption of a party, than from the implantation of a new principle.
Hannah More
#91. Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn't, they couldn't endure.
Nella Larsen
#92. It was about my spirit crying "Abba!" It was about years of hating the church for its hypocrisy and men for the way I'd always wanted my dad to hold me
Emily T. Wierenga
#93. Children are very quick observers; very quick in seeing through some kinds of hypocrisy, very quick in finding out what you really think and feel, very quick in adopting all your ways and opinions. You will often discover that, as the father is, so is the son.
J.C. Ryle
#94. Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.
D.H. Lawrence
#95. If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?
C.S. Lewis
#96. Richard Nixon's conversation was loaded with so many stories of all the foreign dignitaries he'd called upon in his career that he sounded like a guy who had pinioned his neighbors into watching his vacation slides.
Rick Perlstein
#97. Hello my Country I once came to tell everyone your story Your passion was my poetry And your past my most potent glory Your promise was my prayer Your hypocrisy my nightmare And your problems fill my present Are we both going somewhere?
Harry Chapin
#98. I see you exhausted by poisonous flies; I see you bleeding and torn at a hundred spots; and your pride refuses even to be angry.
They would have blood from you in all innocence; blood is what bloodless souls crave - and therefore they sting in all innocence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#100. I hate to tell things in which I don't belive to impress people who are not on my mind so that they see my false image.
Bryanna Reid
