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Quotes About Hypocrisy

When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Hypocrisy wears hard on a man who at heart isn't that way.
~ Sinclair Ross
Everywhere he found his precept checkmated by his example.
~ Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm
I was at a dinner party in New York during which the host loudly declared his undying love for his wife. Two weeks later, he left her for another woman. I am as convinced that his declaration was sincere as I am that he was a cipher to himself.
~ Siri Hustvedt
We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?
~ Jessamyn West
Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?
~ Kerry Thornley
The church is so big on law but not on the love.
~ Robert Hood
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.
~ Mason Cooley
Self-righteous and entitled but they swearin' on the Bible that they love you When really they no different from all your rivals.
~ Nicki Minaj
I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.
~ Albert Camus
The Western world loves liberalisation, provided it doesnt affect them.
~ Azim Premji
Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.
~ Saul Bellow
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
That's what guilt is: a healthy regret for telling God one thing and doing another.
~ Max Lucado
You make irreligion a religion. Leave the hypocrites up to me.
~ Max Lucado
Baby, let me tell you what's going to happen. In a few years, there are going to be beautiful posters of Malcolm X, and his photographs will be everywhere. The same people who don't give a damn now will lie and say they always supported him.
~ Maya Angelou
They grow the fruit, But eat the rind
~ Maya Angelou
You can't look prim and righteous wearing a microscopic miniskirt and mile-high heels. Well it's pretty hard, anyway.
~ Meg Cabot
Primero fue De Quincey, se dijo, y luego Dostoievski, los que señalaron que los humanos, en alarde de cinismo o de ociosidad, gozamos con el crimen. En algún lugar nuestro disfrutamos, admirativos, el horror de un asesinato. Podemos condenarlo, después, y seremos jueces implacables, pero en un primer momento el crimen nos deslumbra, nos impacta hasta la admiración.
~ Mempo Giardinelli
The classic private bitterness of the public zealot. A man who wanted to take out his own inadequacy on other people. And
~ Ben Elton
everybody around here's such a major conservative till they get sick, get screwed over by their insurance company, their job goes over to China or whatever, then they're like, 'Oooooh, what happened?
~ Ben Fountain
Thou shalt not kill, they preached, then screamed at us warriors to slaughter the pagans. Thou shalt not steal, they preached, and forged charters to take men's lands. Thou shalt not commit adultery, they preached, and rutted other men's wives like besotted hares in springtime.
~ Bernard Cornwell