True Hypocrisy Quotes

#1. In each human heart terror survives The ravin it has gorged: the loftiest fear All that they would disdain to think were true: Hypocrisy and custom make their minds The fanes of many a worship, now outworn. They dare not devise good for man's estate, And yet they know not that they do not dare.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#2. Excessive religiosity is killing so many religious people knowingly or unknowingly

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#3. Mr. Beckwith, it is not possible for me to believe that God sees any true love as evil, no matter what the words of man might tell you. Hate is the only truly evil thing in the world. Second only to it false love, followed by its twin, hypocrisy. If your love was true, then it was blessed.

Ulysses Grant Dietz

#4. Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

Pete Townshend

#5. Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.

Radhanath Swami

#6. Maybe that is why in my comedy I try and puncture the hypocrisy all around us, why it is almost a crusade with me to strip life down to what really is true.

Joan Rivers

#7. You may plainly perceive the traitor through his mask; he is well-known everywhere in his true colors; his rolling eyes and his honeyed tones impose only on those who do not know him.

Moliere

#8. To claim that one can never live a positive life with a negative mind is a very negative claim to make!

Criss Jami

#9. When it comes to judging individuals, I do not like remarks such as 'too good to be true.' They speak as though one is rewarding the nature of evil. Yet, ironically, we still wonder where all the good people have gone.

Criss Jami

#10. Trying not to believe things when in your heart you are almost sure they are true, is as bad for the temper as anything I know.

E. Nesbit

#11. The American people are fed up ... with political posturing.' True, but also an example of political posturing.

James Taranto

#12. Hypocrisy a homage is true,
That vice pays to virtue,
Be man - himself so true,
That no false does he brew.

Munindra Misra

#13. I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with my eyes, and there is no way that your eyes don't affect your judgement. The only true way to listen is with your ears and your heart. (p.251)

Malcolm Gladwell

#14. She spent her idle time conceiving of musicals that would never be. It was the only medium that could properly express our true madness and hypocrisy---our collective ability to sit in a theater watching lunatics sing nonsense while the world outside burns.

Dave Eggers

#15. I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalise. Generalisations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

Agatha Christie

#16. She wondered how many of them were liars; their outer purity masking crimes as dark or darker than her own. How many would be chromes themselves, if the truth in their hearts were revealed.

Hillary Jordan

#17. Since men's nature is prone to hypocrisy, it is easy for Satan to persuade them that the true worship of God consists in ceremonies and outward discipline; men

John Calvin

#18. Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.

Raisa Gorbacheva

#19. Hypocrites,' replied Cale, 'I've come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.

Paul Hoffman

#20. We need democracy and meritocracy, not mockracy and hypocrisy.

TheKeyAuthor

#21. 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