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Quotes About Hypocrisy

la mojigatería no es más que la cara opuesta de la lascivia.
~ Isaac Asimov
The talk about culture and justice was more revolting than the barbarism and injustice.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
If men had their way, every woman would lie down a prostitute and get up a virgin.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
That fairy tale that all humans are equal before the law and in the eyes of God is a lie, Camilo. I hope you don't buy into it. Neither the law nor God treats everyone the same.
~ Isabel Allende
moral crisis is produced when the same affluent Catholics who faithfully go to mass deny their workers a dignified wage.
~ Isabel Allende
In Chile we suffer from a particular form of hypocrisy. We act as if we're scandalized by any little peccadillo someone else commits at the same time that we are stacking up barbarous sins in private.
~ Isabel Allende
Son implacables, predican amor, justicia y caridad, y para imponerlas cometen atrocidades.
~ Isabel Allende
Procuró atribuir su malestar al momento del sermón del padre Restrepo cuando la apuntó para referirse a los fariseos que pretendían legalizar a los bastardos y al matrimonio civil, desarticulando a la familia, la patria, la propiedad y la Iglesia, dando a las mujeres la misma posición que a los hombres, en abierto desafío a la ley de Dios
~ Isabel Allende
Aquí, en este mundo que dejaste atrás, a Dios lo han secuestrado los hombres. Han creado unas religiones disparatadas, que no entiendo cómo han sobrevivido durante siglos y siguen expandiéndose. Son implacables, predican amor, justicia y caridad, y para imponerlas cometen atrocidades. Los señores muy principales que propagan estas religiones juzgan, castigan, fruncen el ceño ante la alegría, el placer, la curiosidad y la imaginación.
~ Isabel Allende
pero ese tema era tabú en aquellos tiempos de hipocresía colectiva.
~ Isabel Allende
I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.
~ Pat Robertson
It's always disappointing to come across phony do-gooders. And it's easy to scoff at celebrities working in war zones.
~ Janine di Giovanni
Actors are the only honest hypocrites.
~ William Hazlitt
When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.
~ Jonathan Swift
Whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.
~ Bible
Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?
~ Katharine Whitehorn
Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.
~ Joseph Addison
A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
~ Quintus Curtius Rufus
Said the pot to die kettle, "Get away, blackface."
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites ihay be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.
~ Laurence Sterne
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, tho' the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.
~ Laurence Sterne
Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.
~ Homer
The British are just as keen to make money as the Americans, but they prefer hypocrisy to a blatantly commercial attitude.
~ Wendy Michener
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
~ George Bernard Shaw