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Quotes About Hypocrisy

Their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
~ Bible
Every inch that is not fool is rogue.
~ John Dryden
We have too many sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.
~ Abigail Adams
General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.
~ William Blake
It's no good saying one thing and doing another.
~ Catherine Cookson
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
~ La Rochefoucauld
No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
~ Samuel Johnson
For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible.
~ John Milton
When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out.
~ Otto von Bismarck
Hypocrite - mouth one way, belly 'nother way.
~ Australian Aboriginal Proverb
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
~ Oscar Wilde
Saint abroad, and a devil at home.
~ John Bunyan
Every man is a hypocrite
~ Frederick IV
Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.
~ Matthew Henry
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue.
~ La Rochefoucauld
As the Left demean law-abiding gun owners, they turn flaccid when faced with the armed felon.
~ Greg Gutfeld
Psychologically speaking, one may say that the hypocrite is too ambitious; not only does he want to appear virtuous before others, he wants to convince himself.
~ Hannah Arendt
What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.
~ Thomas B. Macaulay
I believe in treating others as I want to be treated--but I certainly don't believe in turning the other cheek and the truth is that I never knew any Christians who did either.
~ James Hervey
It was the kind of talk that made me want to break off a limb and take to whacking her and that bunch of hypocrites across the back of the head.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
People are hypocrites. If you ask them what they want to see on TV, they'll tell you they want better quality programming. And then what do they watch? 'Gilligan's Island.'
~ Johnny Carson
This country wants to live in the illusion that it is tolerant but also wants to be able to practice intolerance.
~ Junot Diaz
People want to give advice but can't take it themselves.
~ Kathryn Hahn
But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.
~ Peter DeFazio