Memorable Quotes About Hypocrisy

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"Hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue."
Jean de La Bruyère
"There is a certain sort of doctor in whose hands illness does not get better."
Chaucer
"Be honest, like hypocrisy isn't in fashion anymore."
Kevin Young
"A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation."
Adlai E. Stevenson II
"Hypocrisy is a natural state of the human mind. Its slings and arrows are discreetly concealed under the mask of vanity."
Anchee Min
"People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics and they always will be until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises."
Vladimir Lenin
"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."
Tolstoy
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"Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favorite child."
Don King
"You could be going to have supper with someone who happens to be male, and all of a sudden he is your boyfriend of nine months..."
Peruzzi
"I learned pretty soon that it was essential to let one have his group, and to get into it oneself."
Mary McCarthy
"It never fails to come to my mind that this is just absolutely selfish."
Kwame Nkrumah
"You have to invite, I don't know, a ratio of at least half. Where we're going, and what we see, and all the in-betweens."
Stacey Abrams
"There is much more force in saying, 'He seduced me too' than in saying 'He sued me' as far as you will never see them if you're in the dark."
Rose Namajunas
"It’s too easy to deceive everybody."
Diana Bianchi
"We don't want to be held at any point. We can do anything we like."
Radha Mitchell
"It's everything I could have wanted in an explanation, and it's just four of these things."
Dr. Zoe Doubleday
"If you keep it simple, it will be easy to see who the real hypocrites are."
Kushal Pal Singh
"Hypocrites live each day like a grim version of Groundhog Day."
Craig Ferguson
"It's as simple as the difference between what you say and what you do."
Yaakov Peri
"In reality, the addiction has everything and anything to do with the masks you wear in life, and how people wear them in public, from selfies to celebrations! It's all about your fame!"
Alex Dimitrov
"Out of Cuba come dollies that rebels play with."
Cuba Gooding Jr.
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"It's just like the last page giving something away when you haven't even gotten there yet."
Madeleine Stowe
"People that don't know us aren't gonna understand why"
Erik Korem
"Pretending to be good when you're not is just another form of evil."
Bob Dylan
"Hypocrisy is a boomerang; it always comes back and hits you."
Kamal Ravikant
"Beware of the man who doesn't practice what he preaches."
William Shakespeare
"When you wear a mask of hypocrisy, your true self suffocates."
Steve Maraboli
"Hypocrites are proficient in pointing out the speck in someone else's eye while ignoring the log in their own."
Richard Paul Evans
"To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Hypocrisy is a funny thing. It amuses without a smile, and puts laughter in the throat where it can't be breathed."
Criss Jami
"Hypocrisy is the art of affecting virtues for the purpose of deceiving."
Junius
"Hypocrisy is a scentless flower."
Oscar Wilde
"Hypocrites are like pictures that are beautiful at a distance but hideous when looked at closely."
Sai Kumar
"Those who turn their backs on others, often turn their noses up at them too."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"Hypocrisy is a profession – make it your own, and you shall succeed."
Amit Abraham
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"To swear off hypocrisy is to swear off humanity."
George Bernard Shaw
"The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Hypocrisy is the contrivance of pretense, the act of pretending to hold beliefs, virtues, feelings, qualities, or standards that one does not actually possess."
Judith Lewis Herman
"Beware those who seek to suppress the truth, for their hypocrisy knows no bounds."
Bryant McGill
"A hypocrite is more dangerous than a dishonest man. A dishonest man deceives and cheats, but a hypocrite deceives and sins."
Vikrant Parsai
"Never forget; the sweetest and genuine words can be a lie when gently whispered by a deceitful heart."
Nicolae Cirpala
"To know but not to do, is not to know."
William Blake
"I hate the word 'hypocrisy'. It's just a way to make people feel bad for changing their minds."
Carrie Fisher
"Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue."
Molière
"Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda."
Larry Flynt
"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."
Leo Tolstoy
"There is nothing more deceitful than the raptures of hypocrisy."
David Hume
"The devil would appear to be winning when incapable men hold church positions. Satan gets the message across that ineptitude smashes the 'good news' more efficiently than an effective conference on devil worship could."
Criss Jami
"No one preaches a better sermon than the hypocrite."
Dwight L. Moody
"Don't be a hypocrite. No one likes a hypocrite."
Billy Graham
"Hypocrisy is all right if it's practiced judiciously."
Richard Nixon
"Hypocrites get offended by the truth."
Jess C. Scott
"Hypocrisy is like a pin. It pricks little, but draws blood."
Samuel Butler
"Hypocrisy is a quality found with all who are unworthy of the esteem of others."
A. P. Corey
"Hypocrisy is a funny thing. It can, often hide in plain sight."
Nico Lang
"The hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one."
Sam Vaknin
"Hypocrisy is often hard to see in oneself; it most often appears in other people."
Fernando Henriques
"Among all my patients in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life."
Carl Jung
"There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence, were something weak and helpless. These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy begging for a few paise, walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business as usual.' But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story."
Yann Martel
"Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtues."
Molière
"When we think we lead, we are most led."
Lord Byron
"Beware you are not caught by the hypocrisy of the world."
Imam Ali
"Hypocrite: the man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan."
Abraham Lincoln
"There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts."
William Shakespeare
"The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!"
Tennessee Williams
"The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity."
André Gide
"The only people who believe hypocrisy is a virtue are hypocrites."
Fran Lebowitz
"Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of corruption."
Wes Fessler
"Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make not one of them."
William Gurnall
"What makes a person a hypocrite is not so much the discrepancy between the principles they preach and their own actions, as their refusal to acknowledge the discrepancy."
Michael Pollan
"Hypocrisy is a peculiarly unattractive trait. We all dislike it, yet we all do it in one form or another."
Pankaj Mishra
"The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, sidestepping responsibility, and pushing their luck!"
Author Unknown
"Hypocrisy is a flimsy shield."
Peter Carey
"There is no remedy for love but to love more."
Henry David Thoreau
"The only way to combat the deadly effects of hypocrisy is to live in truth."
Daniel Lynch
"If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists in energy."
Josh Billings
"Hypocrisy is for a value system that does not exist anymore."
Anouk Aimee
"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be."
Socrates
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging."
Alexander Theroux
"Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing."
Edmund Burke
"The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy."
William Hazlitt
"We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity."
G. K. Chesterton
"In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra."
Fran Lebowitz
"I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won't."
Mark Twain
"He does not believe that does not live according to his belief."
Sigmund Freud
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
Oscar Wilde
"If you want to be happy, be."
Leo Tolstoy
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
Mark Twain
"To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."
Mahatma Gandhi
"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 gap between your aspirations and your actions. If you aspire to be good, then be good; if you aspire to be honest, then be honest; if you aspire to be true, then be true."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite, while shutting out the truth from others, shuts it out from himself."
William Penn
"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."
W. Somerset Maugham
"As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. If you genuinely believe something in your heart, eventually, you will become the very person you believe."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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
"The only vice that is unforgivable in the eyes of our Maker is hypocrisy. For the repentance of a hypocrite is hypocrisy, too."
William Hazlitt
"Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."
Aldous Huxley
"Hypocrisy is a privileged vice; it assumes public virtue while disregarding personal."
Karl Kraus
"You can never, by salt or oaths, eradicate hypocrisy from this age."
Herman Melville
"I find the act of being kind to a lot of people incredibly selfish."
John Mayer
"Hypocrisy is a scoundrel that has chosen the wrong play. He ought to have graced the tragic drama, for all his ambition is to appear what he is not."
Howard Jacobson
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