Hipocrisy Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Mignon McLaughlin,
William Shakespeare
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| It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. |
| - Alfred Adler |
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| The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales. |
| - Aesop |
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| 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. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. |
| - Hannah Arendt |
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| Many of us believe that wrongs aren't wrong if it's done by nice people like ourselves. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. |
| - Ambrose Bierce |
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| I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me. |
| - Josh Billings |
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| Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one. |
| - Josh Billings |
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| When you say that you agree with a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. |
| - Otto von Bismark |
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| Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise. |
| - Lewis Carroll |
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| As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints. |
| - Charles Caleb Colton |
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| People are very inclined to set moral standards for others. |
| - Elizabeth Drew |
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| Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. We parry and fend the approach of our fellow-man by compliments, by gossip, by amusements, by affairs. We cover up our thought from him under a hundred folds. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Go put your creed into your deed. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue. |
| - François |
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| The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor. |
| - Benjamin Franklin |
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| He does not believe who does not live according to his belief. |
| - Thomas Fuller |
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| The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. |
| - André Gide |
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| We are not hypocrites in our sleep. |
| - William Hazlitt |
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| Live truth instead of professing it. |
| - Elbert Hubbard |
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| Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. |
| - Elbert Hubbard |
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| 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 |
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| If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners - let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. |
| - Aldous Huxley |
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| How seldom we weigh our neighbors in the same balance as ourselves. |
| - Thomas à Kempis |
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| Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents... pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. |
| - Abraham Lincoln |
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| I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. |
| - Abraham Lincoln |
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| The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers. |
| - James Russell Lowell |
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| People will disapprove of you if you're unhappy, or if you're happy in The Wrong Way. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they? |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality. |
| - Mignon McLaughlin |
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| Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors. |
| - Jean Baptiste Molière |
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| One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others. |
| - Moliere |
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| Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart. |
| - Michel de Montaigne |
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| Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. |
| - J. Petit-Senn |
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| They are not all saints who use holy water. |
| - English Proverb |
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| Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. |
| - English Proverb |
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| We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach. |
| - Bertrand Russell |
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| Few love to hear the sins they love to act. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. |
| - William Shakespeare |
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| When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. |
| - George Bernard Shaw |
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| All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. |
| - Logan Pearsall Smith |
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| The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be. |
| - Socrates |
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| Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts. |
| - Laurence Sterne |
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| If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. |
| - Leo Tolstoy |
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| Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. |
| - Mark Twain |
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| Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. |
| - H.G. Wells |
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| Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is. |
| - Rebecca West |
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