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Quotes About Hypocrisy

One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another's ambitiousness.
~ Susan Sontag
Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.
~ Josh Billings
People say, I don't know how she lives with herself, but every single one of them was living with their own worst thing, just fine. No one walks around holding their ugliest sin in the palm of their hand, staring at it.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for. Perfection was marred only by those corruptions necessary to its enterprise.
~ Joshua Ferris
Our moral foundation is built on the fundamental law that God (if there is a God, which there is not) would not wish to be worshipped in the perverted and misconceived ways of human beings, with their righteous violence and prejudices and hypocrisies. Doubt, or cease being moral.
~ Joshua Ferris
Without monstrous distortions, I was slowly learning, without lies and hypocrisy, one cannot have the idealized American life I so longed for.
~ Joshua Ferris
Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.
~ Joyce Cary
Just because you go to church doesn't mean you're a Christian. I can go sit in the garage all day and it doesn't make me a car
~ Joyce Meyer
self-righteousness flows with great solemnity
~ Joyce Sequichie Hifler
In few places is there such a high concentration of hypocrisy as at a writer's funeral.
~ Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Sólo que Judas, Platero, es el diputado, o la maestra, o el forense, o el recaudador, o el alcalde, o la comadrona; y cada hombre descarga su escopeta cobarde, hecho niño esta mañana de Sábado Santo, contra el que tiene su odio, en una superposición de vagos y absurdos simulacros primaverales.
~ Juan Ramón Jiménez
The same generation that believed premarital sex was a sin thought it was perfectly fine to send their young people off to die in a senseless war.
~ Jude Deveraux
Telling a women beater who is clearly a control freak, binge drink and drug taker who by the way probably drives his car whilst intoxicated there's plenty more fish in the sea I would touch this prick with a blunt barge pole if I was shark shit!!!! Yes this is a sarcastic comment as its definately not a great comment by this so called Judge.
~ Judge Martin Rudland
Because cruelty is made easier by hypocrisy and self-deception, they are bound to stand high on the list of vices that begins with cruelty.
~ Judith Shklar
Jesse Helms and Newt Gingrich were shaking hands congratulating themselves on the introduction of an antigay bill in Congress. If it passes, they won't be able to shake hands, because it will then be illegal for a prick to touch an asshole.
~ Judy Carter
To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.
~ Jules Renard
Seit wir den Glauben und damit die Wahrheit verloren haben, liegt zwischen Heuchelei und Ehrlichkeit der letzte Unterschied, der uns bleibt.
~ Juli Zeh
We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers.
~ Ian Brown
I believe in humanity - not just you or Mother, but all mankind. Do I sound like a preacher or a cheap politician making a pretty speech? This is not what I intend to do... I believe in life, that it is sweet and that, for all its occasional bitterness, we-man, that is-are headed toward something better - fulfillment. There is much shame, however, and so much hypocrisy around us and these inhibit our fulfillment as human beings.
~ F. Sionil Jose
I believe in life, that it is sweet and that, for all its occasional bitterness, we-man, that is-are headed toward something better - fulfillment. There is much shame, however, and so much hypocrisy around us and these inhibit our fulfillment as human beings.
~ F. Sionil Jose
Every one likes justice in another's house,none in his own.
~ Famous Proverb
The mouth prays to Buddha, but the heart is full of evil
~ Famous Proverb
Oh it don't make no kind of sense. Big ol' ox like Grady won't sit next to a colored child. But he eats eggs- shoot right outta chicken's ass!
~ Fannie Flagg
Whore,' he cried. Well, she was not his wife, yet she slept with him. She lived in sin. What else but a whore did that make her; and what did her whoredom make of Ben?
~ Fay Weldon